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Historical Event on 4/27/1996

First phase of election for 11th Lok Sabha, and assembly election in 6 states.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/27/1996Battle of Krisna was fought between two villages Rakshasi and Tangadi.
11/24/1919Gandhiji presides over All-India Khilafat conference at Delhi.
7/11/1973India frees 438 Pakistani prisoners on medical grounds.
4/25/1998India protests against Pakistan raising the Kashmir issue at the first SAARC Information Ministers conference in Dhaka.
3/17/1920Mujiburr Rahman, the first Prime Minister of Bangladesh, was born in Tungipara now in Bangladesh.
1/11/1966Lal Bahadur Shastri was posthumously awarded the ""Bharat Ratna"".
8/7/1871Abanindranath Tagore, great modern artist and painter, was born at Jorasanko in Calcutta.
3/12/1992A devastating wave of car-bomb explosions killed an estimated 300 people and injured hundreds more today in the large western Indian port city of Bombay. The first blast ripped through the city's stock exchange building, and minutes later a dozen slightly less powerful explosions rocked the bustling city center.The bomb attacks appeared to have been part of a carefully planned operation.The devices were clearly meant to cause maximum loss of life and damage to property.
1/1/1979This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Year of the Child"".
12/20/1999Win Chadha ready to come to India to face trial in the Bofors case.