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Historical Event on 8/27/1958
Metric system of weights and measures introduced.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/28/1919 | Sunderlal Khurana, great politician and journalist, was born. |
| 6/17/1674 | Jijabai, mother of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, died. |
| 12/24/1972 | Daily newspaper ""Janshakti"" published it's first edition at Jalgaon. |
| 11/30/1995 | G. Umapati, filmmaker, died. |
| 6/21/1930 | Five hundred were hurt as police charged Bombay mob. |
| 5/25/1941 | 5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India. |
| 11/11/1994 | The Supreme Court stays Karnataka Reservation Act. |
| 2/17/1993 | Rani Gaidinliu, freedom fighter, social reformer and political leader, died at her native village in Manipur. The British army made a surprise attack on her position and captured her. On 17th October, 1932, Pandit Nehru once wrote ""A day will come when India will remember her and cherishe her"". |
| 10/30/1996 | Pop star Michael Jackson arrives in Bombay. |
| 6/1/1959 | The Chinese occupy Tibet and Dalai Lama flees to India. |
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