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Historical Event on 9/27/1908

Shiv Verma, great soldier, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/26/1989India debars Bofors from future contracts until they come out clean.
10/31/1885St. Stephen's Hospital was opened. It was the first hospital for women and children at Delhi.
6/16/1925Chittaranjan Das, great freedom fighter, revolutionary, orator, poet, journalist and lawyer, died.
3/5/1931Mahatma Gandhi & British viceroy Lord Irwin sign a pact referred in Indian History as ""Gandhi-Irwin Pact"", after which the civic disobedience movement was taken back.
6/10/1833Azad Muhammad Jussain, Urdu poet and educationalist, was born.
3/12/1967Indira Gandhi became Prime Minister of India for the second time after winning the General Elections.
5/4/1854The first stamp was officially issued from Calcutta where the first modern post office was established.
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1/30/1999Pandit Ravi Shankar, sitar maestro, is chosen for Bharat Ratna.
12/8/1942Hemant Shamsunder Kanitkar, cricketer (batted in two Tests India v WI 1974), was born in Amravati, Maharashtra.