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Historical Event on 10/27/1926

Padmanabh Govind Joshi alias ""Nana"" Joshi, cricket wicketkeeper during 1950's was born in Bar

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/14/199710th International Film Festival for children and young people ambles into Hyderabad atop Gajju, the delightful elephant mascot. About 125 films from 30 countries will be screened.
3/25/1927Leslie Claudius, India field hockey (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56), was born.
2/24/1674Prataprao Gujar, a great Maratha warrior at the time of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, died.
10/3/1991Ganpatrao Tapase, former Governor of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, died.
3/21/1973Yashwant Ramkrishna Date, great Marathi dictionary creator, passed away.
10/16/1999Indian women claimed bronze in the Asian team chess championship in Shenyang
8/15/1947On the the stroke of mid-night on 14th August 1947, India became independent and was partitioned. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru became the first prime minister and Dr. Rajendra Prasad became the first president of free India. The mixed economy policy was taken on a five-year plan basis for economic development. On 26th January 1950, India became a democratic and is the biggest democracy of the world today. In 1956, on the basis of languages, India was divided into 14 states and 6 union territories. Today, there are 27 states and 7 union territories.
1/5/1934Dr. Murli Manohar Manmohan Joshi was born in Delhi.
4/1/1992ESI ceiling of Rs. 3000 comes into effect.
9/23/1858Grant Duf, historian who studied Maratha history, died.