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Historical Event on 7/27/1994
Parliament votes to ban tests for determining the sex of an unborn child, as these tests have resulted in thousands of aborted female fetuses.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/29/1991 | Janta Dal leaders inculding V.P. Singh arrested on way to Ayodhya. |
| 7/17/1937 | Delhi-Calcutta Express Train derailed near Patna killing 95. |
| 8/9/1909 | Vinayak Krishna Gokak, famous Kannad poet, play writer, critic of literature, educationist and Gyanpeeth awardee, was born at Savanur. |
| 6/29/1864 | Dr. Asutosh Mukherjee, great judge, educationist and lawyer of Bengal, was born at Calcutta. |
| 7/26/1991 | Tamil Nadu and Karnataka observe bandh over Cauvery water issue. |
| 4/12/1942 | Nehru pledges 'no surrender' to the Axis despite the rejection of Britain's plans at New Delhi. |
| 8/3/1898 | Udayshankar Bhatt, modern Hindi dramatist, poet and novelist, was born. |
| 5/18/1966 | Panchanan Maheshwari, great Indian scientist of botany, passed away. He studied the morphology, anatomy and embryology of some angiosperms, the class of plants which produce flowers. He discovered species of plants like ""Panchanania Jaipuriensis and Isoeted Panchananil."" He wrote two authoritative books, 'An Introduction to the Embryology of Angiosperms' & 'Recent Advances in Embryology on Angiosperms'. In 1951, he founded the International Society of plant Morphologists. |
| 4/3/1999 | India's INSAT-2E multipurpose telecommunications satellite is successfully launched from the Kourou space station in French Guyana. |
| 8/28/1997 | Jain Commission, chaired by Justice M.C. Jain, submits interim report on Rajiv Gandhi assassination. |
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