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Historical Event on 8/27/1910

Mother Teresa, [Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu], nobel Prize awardee and social worker, was born in Skopje, Macedonia in Yugoslavia.

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10/26/1934Akhil Bharatiya Gramin Udyog Sangh (All India Small Scale Industries Association) was founded and inaugrated by Mahatma Gandhi.
10/12/1995Inderjit Gupta re-elected General Secretary of CPI.
10/15/1932First Indian commercial airliner service 'Tata Sons Ltd' started. (Tata Airlines)
10/14/1999Sheikh Shamim, an Indian, is hanged for espionage in Pakistan.
5/13/1791Lord Cornwallis retreated back to Madras after the battle of Arikera.
10/10/1996UP polls throw up a hung assembly.
1/12/1996Supreme Court holds that horse racing is not gambling, but a game of skill.
1/29/1997Fire engulfs most of the three top floors of the Express Towers, skyrise building owned by Indian Express group in Mumbai.
6/25/1922Satyendranath Datta, famous Bengali poet, passed away.
11/16/1877Ardaseer Cursetjee Wadia, professor, pioneer and innovator, died. He was the first Indian who was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, London. He introduced lighting by gas and was the first to build ""INDUS"", a steam-ship in India in 1833. He also introduced sewing machine, photography and electro-plat