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Historical Event on 1/27/1927
Michael Craig, actor (Escape 2000, Vault of Horror), was born in Pune.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/7/1958 | Acharya Kripalani elected leader of a new opposition group in the Lok Sabha. |
| 9/21/1933 | Annie Besant, great social worker and founder of Home Rule Movement, passed away. |
| 7/24/2000 | S. Vijayalakshmi becomes the first Indian woman Grandmaster in the International Grandmasters chess tournament held in Hyderabad. |
| 10/30/1999 | The Central Ministerial team led by Mr. Advani is prevented from making an on-the-spot assessment of the havoc wrecked by the super cyclone. |
| 2/2/1977 | Jagjivan Ram, Cabinet member of 30 years, resigns to protest emergency rule causing minor split in Congress party. |
| 1/17/1992 | Shankar Ramchandra (Mamrao Date), veteran journalist, passed away. |
| 1/17/1992 | Don Francis-Di-Almeda of Portugal arrived at Cochin as Viceroy of India. |
| 10/26/1930 | Dr. Waldemar Modecal Haffkine, famous scientist, bacteriologist and professor, died in Paris. He had invented the Cholera vaccine in 1893 and a vaccine for Plague in 1897 at the Grant Medical College, Bombay. |
| 7/10/1949 | Sunil Manohar Gavaskar, great Indian cricket player (opener, 10,122 Test runs), was born in Bombay. He has received Arjun Award (1975) and Padma Bhushan (1980). |
| 5/17/1887 | Ranglal Bandopadhyay, Bengali poet, essay-writer and journalist, passed away. |
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