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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
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Sultan Mehmud of Ghazni began his first real expedition to India by defeating the Hindu King Jaipal. He won Afghanisthan and Punjab in Peshawar battle. This was the first major Muslim conquest in India. |
| 11/27/1778 |
Joseph Lin flew upto 2,286 meters high with the help of a baloon. |
| 11/27/1870 |
Dattatreya Balwant Parasnis, famous history researcher and collector of historical items, was born. |
| 11/27/1881 |
Kashi Prasad Jayaswal, great lawyer, philosopher and eminent historian, was born at Mirzapur, UP. |
| 11/27/1888 |
Ganesh Vasudeo Malvankar, great social worker, educationist, writer and first speaker of Lok Sabha, was born in Baroda. |
| 11/27/1907 |
Harivanshrai Bachchan, famous Hindi writer and poet, was born at Allahabad. |
| 11/27/1920 |
Kanhaiyalal Bhagwandas Harjal, educationist, was born at Mohpa, Maharashtra. |
| 11/27/1935 |
Prakash Bhandari, cricketer (3 Tests for India in mid-50's, 77 runs), was born in Delhi |
| 11/27/1946 |
London announces parley on India; Muslims accept, Hindus decline. |
| 11/27/1962 |
Britain agreed to supply arms to India. |
| 11/27/1972 |
Bhutto reports the release of 616 Indian prisoners captured in the Indian-Pakistani dispute at Pakistan. |
| 11/27/1976 |
Gajanan Tryambak Madkholkar, famous journalist, novelist and critic, passed away. |
| 11/27/1984 |
Percy Norris, British Deputy High Commissioner in Bombay, assassinated in Bombay. |
| 11/27/1992 |
Sachin Tendulkar, 19 years and 22 days old, becomes the youngest cricketer to make 1,000 test runs while playing in Johannesburg. |
| 11/27/1993 |
Splendid bowling by Anil Kumble (6 for 12) helps India to beat West Indies by 102 runs in the Hero Cup finals in Calcutta. |
| 11/27/1994 |
D. V. Purohit (Nanasaheb), veteran freedom figher and revolutionary, passed away. |
| 11/27/1994 |
Shyam Vyas, veteran Hindi story writer, passed away. |
| 11/27/1998 |
India retains the Asia Cup tennis championship in Delhi beating Uzbekistan 2-1 in the final. |
| 11/27/1999 |
Lt. Gen. J.F.R. Jacob is sworn in Punjab Governor. |
| 11/27/1999 |
BJP recaptures the Jaipur Civic body posts by winning 49 out of 70 seats. |
| 11/27/1999 |
BJP suspends former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Kalyan Singh from the primary membership of the Party for defying Mr. Vajpayee. |
| 11/27/2000 |
After three decades, English was again made compulsory in Gujarat schools from Standard V from the next academic year. |
| 11/27/2000 |
Supreme Court grants bail to four AIADMK men accused in the 2nd February Dharmapuri bus burning incident. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/4/1997 | World Bank Atlas for 1997 put India as world's fifth largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity estimated around $1318 trillion. |
| 11/10/1989 | Foundation stone laid for the Ram Janambhoomi temple at Ayodhya. |
| 5/2/1953 | 40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers. |
| 3/29/1999 | A massive earthquake in the Garhwal region of Uttar Pradesh in the inner Himalayas claims 85 lives and more than 130 injured. |
| 6/24/1897 | Padmashree Pandit Omkarnath Thakur, famous music director of Gwalior Gharana, was born at Gujrat. |
| 12/1/1931 | The Second Round Table conference that began in London ended. Congress was solely represented by Gandhi and Muslim League by Sir Allama Iqbal and Quaid-e-Azam, etc. Two committees were setup to carry out the work of the conference on Federal Structure and Minorities. Gandhi was the member of both committees. He claimed that being the sole representative of the Congress, he represented the whole of India. Quaid-e-Azam replied that Muslims are a separate nation. Sir Shafi demanded that the 14 points of Quaid-e-Azam be incorporated in future constitution. |
| 12/21/1999 | Kushabhau Thakre, BJP president, said that Ayodhya issue was a 'programme' and not an ideology of the party. |
| 6/23/1971 | Sriprakash, freedom fighter, prolific writer and member of the AICC, passed away. |
| 1/10/1888 | Marathas were defeated in the third and last war against the British at Rampura. |
| 12/1/1989 | National Front decides to form a government with outside support from the BJP and the Left Parties. |
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