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Historical Event on 4/27/1996
General Election (11th) of India begins.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/12/1925 | Ghulam Mustafa Guard, cricketer (lefty pace bowler in 2 Tests for India 1959), was born in Surat, Gujarat. |
| 4/20/1914 | Gopinath Mahanti, famous Oriya novelist and Gyanpeeth awardee, was born. |
| 5/8/1725 | John Lovewell, US Indian fighter, passed away in a battle. |
| 5/18/1912 | Narayan Govind Chitre, with the help of R. P. Tipnis and Cameraman Johnson, produced a 8000 ft. long theatrical film 'Pundalik', which was directed by Ramchandra Torney alias Dada Saheb Torne. The entire film was shot in a theatre at Mangaldas Wadi in Bombay, where the Sangit Mandali, a professional theatre group, was performing a play 'Pundalik'. The film was released on May, 18 in the Coronation Cinematograph at Girgaum, Bombay. |
| 7/23/1996 | India's admission to Asian Regional Forum was endorsed by Foreign Ministers of the group at Jakarta. |
| 5/20/1878 | Bahameni Sultan Dawood Shah was assassinated. |
| 8/17/1947 | The first British troop leaves for England after Indian independence. |
| 3/26/1931 | New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of British-Indies. |
| 5/8/1998 | Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh Prime Minister, gets the Gandhi award for 1998. |
| 10/19/1910 | Subrahamanyam Chandrasekhar was born in Lahore. He was one of the world's leading astrophysicists. For his contributions to the study of stars, Chandrasekhar had received the highest award in Science, the Noble Prize in Physics in 1983. |
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