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Historical Event on 10/27/1947
Indian Governments accepts King of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Harisingh's accession merging Jammu and Kashmir in India and sends its troops. Accession of Jammu and Kashmir was then officially announced. No. 12 Sqn was to initiate the remarkable feat of air-lifting the first Sikhs from Palam onto the rough and dusty Srinagar airstrip without planning or reconnaissance as the initial Indian response to the sizeable insurgent forces that were pouring across the border into Jammu and Kashmir.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/22/1973 | Swami Ramanand Tirth, politician and educationalist, passed away. |
| 9/10/1911 | Jatin Chakravorty, social reformer, politician and trade unionist, was born at Comilla, Bangladesh. |
| 2/16/1932 | Sibnath Banerjee, trade union movement leader, passed away. He founded several organisation like Congress Socialist Party, A.I.T.U.C. and Hind Mazdoor Sabha, etc. |
| 1/29/1993 | Test debut of Vinod Kambli, prolific Indian batsman. |
| 2/25/2000 | Justice M. Srinivasan (63), Supreme Court Judge at the Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, died after prolonged illness. |
| 4/10/1999 | Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (87), patriarch of Malayalam fiction, died at his ancestral village at Sankaramangalam in Thakazhi village. |
| 4/22/1998 | India and Bangladesh resolve to work together to ''root out terrorism'', push bilateral trade and harness river waters of the region. |
| 7/17/1987 | V. P. Singh announces resignation from Congress; R. Venkataraman elected President of India. |
| 10/29/1961 | New All India Muslim League was established. |
| 12/22/1966 | U.S. announces allocation of 900,000 tons of grain to fight famine in India. |
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