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Historical Event on 4/27/1996

General Election (11th) of India begins.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/7/1983Eastern News Agency was established in Calcutta .
1/5/1988India's first indigenously built 'Braille' script released short hand machine for the blind.
10/14/1884Lala Har Dayal, revolutionary, nationalist and freedom fighter, was born at Delhi.
11/19/2000The Government announces a partial rollback in the price of kerosene by Re. 1 a litre and LPG by Rs. 10 a cylinder in deference to the demands by allies led by the Trinamool Congress.
1/24/1995Congress (I) suspends Arjun Singh from the party.
5/9/1874First horse-drawn tram car started running in Mumbai.
9/21/2000J.W. Singh, suspended Mumbai High Court judge facing charges of extortion in nexus with the underworld, dismissed from judicial service.
8/13/1956National Highways Act was approved by the Parliament of India.
1/8/1884Keshav Chunder Sen, nationalist leader of Bengal, social worker and good orator of Brahma Samaj, passed away at his home in Lily Cottage, Calcutta. He was one of the first Indians to sow the seeds of secularism in our country. He strongly believed that education was the basic necessity to change the society.
1/31/1963Peacock declared as National Bird of India.