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Historical Event on 1/27/1996

'Prithvi', surface-to-surface missile, test-fired successfully.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/31/2000The Government announces appointment of Justice B. M. Lal as Chairman of the MRTP Commission.
1/12/1990Upper age limit for Civil Services Examination raised from 26 to 28 years.
3/6/1961India's first Financial daily 'The Economic Times' started publication from Bombay.
3/22/1907Perturbed by a new law restricting Asiatic immigrants, Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian attorney now living in South Africa, organized a campaign of civil disobedience to resist the statute popular bill passed by the new Boer government of the Transvaal Colony. The Asiatic Registration Bill was considered by Gandhi unjust and discriminatory to the large Chinese and Indian populations. However, the government expressed the belief that the ordinance was popular. ""Over 90 percent of the white people thoroughly approve of it,"" said Sir Gilbert Parker, a Conservative member of Parliament.
9/2/1947Gandhiji is mobbed in Calcutta house; gives up idea of Noakhali visit. Peace efforts intensified.
7/4/1992Sanskrit made a compulsory subject from sixth to intermediate classes in Uttar Pradesh.
12/24/1894The first medical conference was held in Calcutta.
8/11/1997135 persons killed in flash floods in Shimla & Kiannaur districts of Himachal Pradesh.
10/16/1959National Council of Women's Education was inaugurated in New Delhi.
6/26/1888Ghanshyam Das Birla, great freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Pilani.