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Historical Event on 12/27/1931
150 are arrested following 'red shirt' riots in the N.W. Frontier province.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/11/1916 | Gopal Raghunath Bewur, former Chief of Army and fighter, was born. |
| 8/23/1958 | Marathwada University was started. |
| 8/7/1925 | Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986. |
| 5/20/1900 | Sumitranandan Pant was born. |
| 9/8/1990 | Mother Teresa re-elected head of Missionaries of Charity. |
| 3/4/1997 | Govt. not to print Re. 1 , Rs. 2 & Rs. 5 currency notes any more, as these three denominations have been coinised. |
| 5/15/1817 | Maharshi Devendranath Tagore, Bengali social reformer and father of Rabindranath Tagore, was born. |
| 5/5/1989 | Naval Tata, famous industrialist, passed away. |
| 8/10/1905 | Sundarji Gokuldas Betard, modern Gujrathi poet, was born. |
| 4/3/1984 | Sikh terrorists kill a member of Parliament in his home in New Delhi. |
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