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27 November - India on this day21 events

1972

Bhutto reports the release of 616 Indian prisoners captured in the Indian-Pakistani dispute at Pakistan.

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1984

Percy Norris, British Deputy High Commissioner in Bombay, assassinated in Bombay.

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1870

Dattatreya Balwant Parasnis, famous history researcher and collector of historical items, was born.

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1881

Kashi Prasad Jayaswal, great lawyer, philosopher and eminent historian, was born at Mirzapur, UP.

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1888

Ganesh Vasudeo Malvankar, great social worker, educationist, writer and first speaker of Lok Sabha, was born in Baroda.

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1907

Harivanshrai Bachchan, famous Hindi writer and poet, was born at Allahabad.

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1920

Kanhaiyalal Bhagwandas Harjal, educationist, was born at Mohpa, Maharashtra.

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1935

Prakash Bhandari, cricketer (3 Tests for India in mid-50's, 77 runs), was born in Delhi.

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1001

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.

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1946

London announces parley on India; Muslims accept, Hindus decline.

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1962

Britain agreed to supply arms to India.

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2000

Supreme Court grants bail to four AIADMK men accused in the 2nd February Dharmapuri bus burning incident.

#law#transport27-November-2000
1992

Sachin Tendulkar, 19 years and 22 days old, becomes the youngest cricketer to make 1,000 test runs while playing in Johannesburg.

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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.

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1998

India retains the Asia Cup tennis championship in Delhi beating Uzbekistan 2-1 in the final.

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2000

After three decades, English was again made compulsory in Gujarat schools from Standard V from the next academic year.

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1994

D. V. Purohit (Nanasaheb), veteran freedom figher and revolutionary, passed away.

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1994

Shyam Vyas, veteran Hindi story writer, passed away.

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1999

Lt. Gen. J.F.R. Jacob is sworn in Punjab Governor.

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1999

BJP recaptures the Jaipur Civic body posts by winning 49 out of 70 seats.

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1999

BJP suspends former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Kalyan Singh from the primary membership of the Party for defying Mr. Vajpayee.

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