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Historical Event on 1/27/1994

55 miners, trapped inside New Kenda Colliery of Eastern Coal Fields, die.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/13/1984India beat Pak by 58 runs to win the first Cricket Asia Cup in Sharjah.
6/10/1946Gandhiji refused to enthuse over allied victory as it was not a ""victory of truth over false-hood"".
1/22/1666Shahjahan (Sjihab Al-Din Sultan C Shah D Jahan), great Mughal emperor, died at the Agra fort as a prisoner, to rest besides Mumtaz in Taj Mahal. Jahanara arranged that Sahjahan be laid.
1/18/1942Gandhiji restarts 'Harijan' and allied weeklies.
9/12/1966Mihir Sen, famous Indian swimmer, crossed Darda Nailes Channel.
1/19/1997Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad arrives in India on a 4-day visit.
6/9/1998Gujarat was hit by a cyclone killing 1,000 people in six days.
5/18/1998India may take the US to WTO.
10/31/1984Indira Gandhi, India's four-time prime minister, was gunned down by two members of her personal security guard as she walked from her home to her office in New Delhi. She died after four hours of emergency surgery. The only daughter of former Prime Minister Nehru was 66. Both of her attackers were identified as members of the Sikh religion. One was shot dead. The other was captured. Sikh extremists had threatened to kill Ms. Gandhi since she ordered the raid on their shrine in Amritsar. She had told an interviewer that she was not intimidated by the threats. 'I am not afraid,' she said. 'I am frequently attacked.'
4/19/1998Kottayam in Kerala becomes the first district in India to complete computerisation of the talluk offices connecting them with the district headquarters.