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Historical Event on 11/27/2000

After three decades, English was again made compulsory in Gujarat schools from Standard V from the next academic year.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/24/1999India's Krishnan Sasikiran and China's Wang Yu bagged the boys' and girl's titles respectively in the Asian Junior Chess championship in Vung Tau City, Vietnam.
5/15/1996The 11th Lok Sabha constituted as Election Commission submits a list of 534 successful candidates to President.
2/14/1994V. P. Singh elected JD Chief in place of S.R. Bommai who stepped down.
2/2/1989France's highest civilian award, 'Legion d' Honour, conferred upon Satyajit Ray by President Mitterrand at Calcutta.
10/24/1934Arvindrao Laxmanrao Apte, cricketer (brother of Madhav scored 8 & 7 runs in one Test), was born in Bombay.
3/26/1993Surajkund AICC okays dual posts for Narasimha Rao.
2/5/1992Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Dilip Vengsarkar.
2/1/1969Pinaki Chatterji and George Albert Duke on a two-man rowing expedition to the Andamans set out from Calcutta.
9/27/1856Pratap Narayan Mishra, Hindi writer, was born. He is one of the pioneers of mordern Hindi language.
5/22/1991Shripad Amrit Dange, veteran communist leader, passed away.