Vinayak Damodar Savarkar’s birth anniversary was celebrated on 28 May 2019.

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, popularly called as Veer Savarkar was born on 28 May 1883 near Nasik in Maharashtra, He was a great freedom fighter.
He has published “The Indian War of Independence” about Indian rebellion of 1857 (also called The First War of Independence and “Sepoy Mutiny” of 1857.
Earlier in his honour the airport at Port Blair has been named as Veer Savarkar International Airport.