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Historical Event on 8/27/1976

Major-General (Kumari) Gertude Ali Ram, the first women General in Indian Army, was appointed as the first Director of Military Nursing Services at the Army Headquarters.

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7/30/1960Gangadhar Balkrishna Deshpande, great freedom fighter, leader and 'Lion of Karnataka', 0died. He was a loyal Congress leader.
4/26/1991Syed Shahabuddin filed nominations for two seats as a candidate of two different parties within 24 hours.
4/2/1702Balaji Vishwanath Bhat, first Peshwa, passed away.
10/14/1885Mukandi Lal, famous Hindi writer, was born in Chamoli at U.P.
8/16/2000Rangarajan Kumaramangalam, Union Power Minister, goes into a coma after multiple organ failure.
8/14/1996Amrit Rai, son of Munshi Premchand, died.
11/5/1995Common Guidance test flight of Trishul successful.
6/28/1972Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis died. He was the first founder of Indian statistical Institute to receive world recognition. In 1958, he started his national sample surveys. A Sample survey means assessing a situation by studying a part of it which would represent the whole, some of his proposals were included in the second five year paln. His original work made him elected as fellow of the Royal society in 1945.
1/16/1992Prices of steel and iron decontrolled.
5/20/1776Malharrao Holkar, founder of Indoor, passed away.