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Historical Event on 4/27/1996
General Election (11th) of India begins.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/14/1990 | An Indian Airlines Airbus crashes at Bangalore killing 92 people. |
| 1/19/1977 | World's largest crowd--12.7 million--gather for Indian religious festival 'Kumbh Mela'. |
| 8/10/1998 | Sri Bhuteshanandji Maharaj, 97, president of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, died in Calcutta. |
| 10/22/1912 | Gandhiji accompanied Gokhale on tour of South Africa, Laurenco Marques, Mozambique and Zanzibar. He gave up European dress and milk and restricted himself to diet of fresh and dried fruits. |
| 2/14/1901 | King Edward VII open's his first parliament. |
| 1/29/1931 | Gandhiji sails for England as Congress delegate to Second Round Table Conference. This conference was attended by Madan Mohan Malaviya and Sarojini Naidu. |
| 4/22/1993 | Air India engineers call off their 56-day-old strike. |
| 6/1/1930 | Baba Adhav was born. |
| 1/14/1843 | Fakir Mohan Senapati, great writer and nationalist, was born. |
| 2/16/1933 | Surya Sen Masterda, revolutionary freedom fighter, who attacked the Armoury of Chittagong with 62 men of the Indian Republican Army and was underground on Jalalabad Hills, was arrested. |
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