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Historical Event on 7/27/1910
Bande Ali Khan, great singer of `Beenkar' and `Kirana Gharana', passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/1/1999 | Indira Gandhi, former Prime Minister, is named ""`Woman of the Millennium'' in a BBC pol |
| 8/22/2000 | Parliament okays two Constitutional Amendment Bills restoring relaxations in marks for promotion in government jobs to SC/STs and exempting Arunachal from reservation for SCs. |
| 3/17/1957 | New Central Cabinet under J. L. Nehru sworn in. |
| 11/10/1698 | East India Company purchased Calcutta, which had not more than a village at that time. |
| 2/4/1948 | Rakeshchandra Satchidananda Shukla, cricket leg-spinner (1 Test India v Sri Lanka 1982), was born in Kanpur. |
| 4/2/1997 | A division bench of Mumbai High Court holds that a married woman of a joint Hindu family can stake a claim to her father's property. |
| 1/27/1931 | Mahatma Gandhi was released from jail, ending eight months of imprisonment for his campaign of civil disobedience against British rule. To avoid demonstrations, Gandhi was released late in the evening from the Yerovda jail and put on a night train to Bombay. There was hope in British circles that the release of Gandhi would end the strife and lead to discussions of dominion status. Gandhi made clear, however, that he would persist in his civil disobedience campaign. |
| 8/25/1997 | 10,000 people residing in low lying areas in Gujarat shifted to safer places following incessant rains for two days. Death toll mounts to 265. |
| 4/6/1934 | Nilkanth Yashwant Khadilkar, editor of Marathi daily newspaper, was born. |
| 10/22/1947 | There were bound to be difficulties in consolidating the loosely federated Indian provinces, princely states, etc. into one homogeneous whole state. Kashmir, after initial dithering, acceded to India voluntarily and by popular consent, then, was invaded by Pakistani tribesmen with the support of the Pakistani government. |
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