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Historical Event on 11/27/1994

D. V. Purohit (Nanasaheb), veteran freedom figher and revolutionary, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/4/1924Vidyadhar Gokhle, editor, playwright and politician, was born.
8/2/1959Little Theatre was established.
2/1/1986Pope John Paul II arrives in New Delhi for a 10-day visit.
3/1/1903Pareshchandra Bhattacharya, former Gonerner of Indian Reserve Bank, was born.
8/18/1945Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose left Saigon and is believed to have died in a Japanese aeroplane crash at Taihoku Airport in Taiwan.
7/23/1904The Great Indian Peninsula Railway started First Class restaurant cars on its mail trains.
9/13/1997India drubs Maldives in SAFF football final in Kathmandu.
12/3/1971Hostilities broke out between India and Pakistan. On the very night that hostilities commenced, with Pakistan bombing several air fields, IN Ships 'Rajput' and 'Akshay' were leaving Vishakapatnam harbour when they obtained a sonar contact. They fired several depth charges and proceeded on their mission when there was no further evidence of a submarine's presence. Thereafter, a loud explosion of rattling windows panes off the Vishakapatnam beach was heard . The Pakistani submarine 'Ghazi' (a Tench class submarine obtained from the USA in 1964) had come to grief.
6/27/1995Environmentalist and 'Chipko' leader, Shri Sunderlal Bahuguna ends the 49-day old fast in demand for a scientific review of the controversial Tehri dam project in UP.
2/8/1986Sister Alphonsa was beatified by his Holiness Pope John-ll at Kottayam. She was the first woman from India to be raised to this honour. (19-7-96).
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