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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
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Sultan Mehmud of Ghazni began his first real expedition to India by defeating the Hindu King Jaipal. He won Afghanisthan and Punjab in Peshawar battle. This was the first major Muslim conquest in India. |
| 11/27/1778 |
Joseph Lin flew upto 2,286 meters high with the help of a baloon. |
| 11/27/1870 |
Dattatreya Balwant Parasnis, famous history researcher and collector of historical items, was born. |
| 11/27/1881 |
Kashi Prasad Jayaswal, great lawyer, philosopher and eminent historian, was born at Mirzapur, UP. |
| 11/27/1888 |
Ganesh Vasudeo Malvankar, great social worker, educationist, writer and first speaker of Lok Sabha, was born in Baroda. |
| 11/27/1907 |
Harivanshrai Bachchan, famous Hindi writer and poet, was born at Allahabad. |
| 11/27/1920 |
Kanhaiyalal Bhagwandas Harjal, educationist, was born at Mohpa, Maharashtra. |
| 11/27/1935 |
Prakash Bhandari, cricketer (3 Tests for India in mid-50's, 77 runs), was born in Delhi |
| 11/27/1946 |
London announces parley on India; Muslims accept, Hindus decline. |
| 11/27/1962 |
Britain agreed to supply arms to India. |
| 11/27/1972 |
Bhutto reports the release of 616 Indian prisoners captured in the Indian-Pakistani dispute at Pakistan. |
| 11/27/1976 |
Gajanan Tryambak Madkholkar, famous journalist, novelist and critic, passed away. |
| 11/27/1984 |
Percy Norris, British Deputy High Commissioner in Bombay, assassinated in Bombay. |
| 11/27/1992 |
Sachin Tendulkar, 19 years and 22 days old, becomes the youngest cricketer to make 1,000 test runs while playing in Johannesburg. |
| 11/27/1993 |
Splendid bowling by Anil Kumble (6 for 12) helps India to beat West Indies by 102 runs in the Hero Cup finals in Calcutta. |
| 11/27/1994 |
D. V. Purohit (Nanasaheb), veteran freedom figher and revolutionary, passed away. |
| 11/27/1994 |
Shyam Vyas, veteran Hindi story writer, passed away. |
| 11/27/1998 |
India retains the Asia Cup tennis championship in Delhi beating Uzbekistan 2-1 in the final. |
| 11/27/1999 |
Lt. Gen. J.F.R. Jacob is sworn in Punjab Governor. |
| 11/27/1999 |
BJP recaptures the Jaipur Civic body posts by winning 49 out of 70 seats. |
| 11/27/1999 |
BJP suspends former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Kalyan Singh from the primary membership of the Party for defying Mr. Vajpayee. |
| 11/27/2000 |
After three decades, English was again made compulsory in Gujarat schools from Standard V from the next academic year. |
| 11/27/2000 |
Supreme Court grants bail to four AIADMK men accused in the 2nd February Dharmapuri bus burning incident. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/21/1882 | Vaman Malhar Joshi, Marathi novelist, was born. |
| 11/14/1919 | Anantrao Bhalerao, freedom fighter, journalist and editor of daily news paper ""Marathawada"", was born. |
| 5/12/1992 | Security scandal, RBI extends probe to four foreign banks. |
| 10/13/1998 | India, Mauritius sign an agreement on civil aviation in New Delhi in the presence of its two Prime Ministers. |
| 2/17/1993 | Rani Gaidinliu, freedom fighter, social reformer and political leader, died at her native village in Manipur. The British army made a surprise attack on her position and captured her. On 17th October, 1932, Pandit Nehru once wrote ""A day will come when India will remember her and cherishe her"". |
| 5/14/1976 | Pakistan and India agree to resume diplomatic ties. |
| 3/18/1972 | First Indian Book Fair was organised by National Book Trust in New Delhi. |
| 11/30/1999 | Prof. M. N. Sromovas, (83), well-known Sociologist in Bangalore, died. |
| 9/30/1922 | Bakhshish Singh Nijjar, great historian and author, was born at Domeli village (Punjab). |
| 5/25/1877 | Sir John Lawrence--passenger steamer of McLean & Co. of Calcutta--sank near the coastline of Orrisa in a storm. This ship carried 732 passengers. |
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