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Historical Event on 12/27/1975
372 miners die in a huge blast in Bihar state.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/13/1995 | Devyani Chaubal, film journalist, passed away. |
| 12/20/1999 | The Delhi HC dismisses a plea from Rajendra Yadav challenging his retirement from the Prachar Bharati Board. |
| 8/1/1957 | M. K. Vellodi was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 04-06-1958. |
| 11/29/1994 | M.H. Kania, former Chief Justice of India made Chairman of the 14th Law Commission. |
| 10/15/1676 | King of England permitted the East India Company to mint the Rupee and Paisa coins at Bombay. |
| 6/10/1966 | MIG aeroplanes were designed at Nashik. |
| 4/4/1994 | Ravi Naik, Goa CM, resigns. |
| 11/29/1952 | First international organization for birth control founded in Bombay. |
| 5/25/1996 | Maharashta govt. announces decision to revive Sri Krishna Commission set up to probe the 1993 Mumbai riots. |
| 9/18/1924 | Mahatma Gandhi was to fast for 21 days in despair of the recent riots between Muslims and Hindus. It was an expression of his 'unbearable hopelessnes'. ""Nothing I say or write,"" he said, ""can bring the two communities together."" Even as he spoke there were reports of further riots at Kohat, in which 20 Hindus and 11 Muslims were killed. Reservations, Gandhi speaking in Allahabad said, reserved the right to drink water with or without salt. ""It is both a penance and a prayer. As it is penance I need not have taken the public into my confidence but I publish it as, let me hope, an effective prayer to Hindus and Muslims, not to commit suicide"". |
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