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Historical Event on 6/27/1998
Homi J. H. Taleyarkhan, Gandhian, Congressman and former Sikkim Governor, dies at 86.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/8/1930 | Mahatma Gandhi started civil disobedience movement continues in India. |
| 6/20/1911 | Dattatray Purushottam Karmarkar, veteran freedom fighter and former cabinet minister, died. |
| 10/11/1994 | Molly Chacko at Hiroshima sets record for 3000m (Women) in 9.06.42. |
| 8/14/1993 | New governors for MP, Bihar, West Bengal & Tripura. |
| 10/28/1867 | Swami Vivekanand Sister Nivedita, great freedom fighter, revolutionary and politician, was born at Dunganon in Ireland. |
| 10/22/1933 | Vithalbhai Patel, great freedom fighter, social worker, leader, politician, President of the Central Assembly, lawyer and member of parliament, died in Geneva. |
| 3/22/1893 | Surya Sen, alias Masterda, revolutionary freedom fighter, was born. |
| 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. |
| 7/21/1977 | K.S. Hegde elected Lok Sabha Speaker. |
| 11/5/1951 | Western Railways and Central Railways were formed in Bombay; seperate Time Tables were setup. |
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