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Historical Event on 4/27/1996
General Election (11th) of India begins.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/25/2000 | The Government awards Padma Vibhushan to R.K. Narayan, Dr.M.S. Gill; Padma Bhushan for Rajnikant and Padmashri for A.R. Rehman. |
| 4/22/1930 | Civil Disobedience at Dandi, 6th April 1930 and Civil Disobedience at Bombay, 7th April 1930, both documentary films produced by Krishna Film Co., Bombay, were prohibited by Censor Board on April 22, on the grounds that they were calculated to foster resistance to Government and to promote a breach of Law and Order. |
| 2/24/1986 | Rukmini Devi passed away. |
| 5/4/1849 | Jyotirindranath Tagore, Bengali litterateur and poet, was born. |
| 8/25/1981 | Sharad Pawar, Maharashtra leader, elected the President of Congress. |
| 11/19/1997 | 1996 Indira Gandhi prize for peace, disarmament and development presented to Medicins Sans Frontieres, a non-government organisation, providing medical aid to the needy across the globe, by President K. R. Narayanan on the 80th birth anniversary of Indira Gandhi. |
| 11/2/1908 | 50 years after the start of direct rule, Edward VII talks of 'prudently extending' democracy. |
| 12/15/1957 | 60 Harijans enter the Vishwanath Temple at Varanasi. |
| 8/6/1991 | Ramakrishna Hegde disqualified as MLA. |
| 4/18/1916 | Iyyer G. Subramaniam, Congress leader, passed away. |
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