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Historical Event on 4/27/1920

Dr. Manibhai Desai, great Gandhian leader and Magssese Awardee, was born.

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2/13/1984Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister, inaugurated the first manufacturing work of Indian Submarines at Mazgaon Dock, Bombay.
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1/30/1903Lord Curzon opened the Imperial Library in in Metcalfe Hall at Calcutta.
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9/5/1997Mother Teresa, founder of Missionaries of Charity who was awarded with Nobel Prize (1979) and Bharat Ratna, died at the age of 87 due to heart attack late in the evening around 9:30 pm in Calcutta.
10/1/1993The two helicopters along with the first batch of fifteen personnel were ferried out in an AN-12 from Delhi to Mogadishu. The two helicopters were provided by 111 HU.
4/28/1993Troops storm police complex in Srinagar and free officials from the rebelling 2000 policemen.
6/2/1986One thousand Sikhs arrested at demonstrations in Punjab.
12/14/1998The Government introduces the controversial Women's Reservation Bill in the Lok Sabha.