28 December in Hindu history
28 December 1659 CE
Battle of Kolhapur
Seven weeks after Pratapgad, Bijapur sent a second army under Rustam Zaman and Afzal Khan’s son Fazal Khan. Shivaji met it in the open near Kolhapur and broke it.
28 December 1885
Indian National Congress founded at Bombay
Seventy-two delegates meet at Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College in Bombay under W. C. Bonnerjee. The Congress began as a forum for petitions and became the main body of the freedom struggle.