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Today Importance - 28th September

28-September-1827

Some mountain battery trains kept the Indian element alive as part of the Royal Artillery. Recently, it has been established that 8 companies of the Bombay Artillery survived the ax and now 5 (Bombay) Mountain Battery. This day is now celebrated as Regiment of Artillery Raising Day.

28-September-1837

Bahadur Shah II ascended the throne at the age of 62 after the death of his father Akbar Shah II and became the Emperor of Delhi.

28-September-1909

Birth of famous film actor Jayaram. His first film was 'Sparkling Youth' (1930). He was a beneficiary of the Dadasaheb Phalke Grant. The films in which he worked include 'Fight to Death', 'All for Love', 'Bhavani No Vogue', 'Pearl', 'Queen of Persia', 'The Enemy', 'My Hero'.

28-September-1924

To atone for the riots, Gandhi, sitting on a hunger strike in Delhi, declared that he would break his fast only when he died.

28-September-1929

Great playback singer Lata Mangeshkar was born.

28 September 1940

Freedom fighter and social reformer Pandit Sunder Lal Sharma passed away. He was generally called "Gandhi of Chhattisgarh".

28 September 1954

137 people died when an express train fell off a flood-damaged bridge near eastern Hyderabad.

28 September 1964

The heated conflict between India and Pakistan between Hindus and Muslims in Kashmir has started again. Fighting was also reported in the Indian state of Rajasthan on this day. China, which supported Pakistan in the dispute, sent heavy troops to its border.

28 September 1965

India-Pakistan hostilities escalated into a war led by Pakistan.

28 September 1984

The first floodlight switching on outside Australia was held between India and Australia in New Delhi.

28-September-1985

The Indian Army's first expedition, sailing from Bombay, set out around the world in a small 37 ft fiberglass boat named "Trisha". (10-1-87).

28 September 1991

Shankar Guha Nyogi, an active trade union leader from Madhya Pradesh, was shot dead by unknown assailants.

28 September 1993

A gas pipe explosion beneath a Caracas national highway killed 58 people.

28 September 1996

Sakharam has been sent to Thira jail in a property case.