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Historical Event on 12/27/1926
Imperial Airways announces the first scheduled air service to India from New Year in UK.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/16/2000 | Kalyan Banerjee becomes the first Indian to head the Rotary Foundation, one of the richest bodies of the Rotary International. |
| 6/13/1879 | Ganesh Damodar (Babarao) Savarkar, revolutionary, was born. |
| 11/14/1964 | Nehru Commemorative coin is released. |
| 7/26/1874 | Rajarshi Shahu Chhatrapati, great revolutionary freedom fighter and social reformer, was born. |
| 4/5/1919 | India's first modern shipping company Scindia Steam Navigation's first ship 'Liberty' started its journey. The weight of the ship was 5,940 tonnes. |
| 3/4/1858 | J. P. Walker, British Officer, along with 200 prisoners who were mainly from the Indian Sepoy Mutiny, sailed from Calcutta to start a new settlement in the Andaman Islands. |
| 11/20/1955 | Kripal Singh scores 100* on Test debut, India v New Zealand. |
| 4/1/2000 | India wins four golds in the under-14 Youth chess championship in Teheran. |
| 11/13/1998 | Pravabati Devi (88), freedom fighter and `Mother Teresa of Orissa', dies at the orphanage set up by her at Chharchanpali. |
| 1/24/1995 | Congress (I) suspends Arjun Singh from the party. |
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