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Historical Event on 10/27/2000
The Vajpayee Government 'clears' the names of Surjit Singh Barnala, Prabhat Kumar and Dinanath Tiwari for appointment as the Governors of the new States of Uttaranchal, Jharkhand and Chhatisgarh respectively.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/5/1922 | Amar Nath Sehgal, sculptor, was born at Campbellpur (W. Pakistan). His important works are ""Voice of Africa (Ghana-1958)"", A Cricketer (1961) and Mahatma Gandhi, Amritsar, To space Unknown (bronze, Moscow-1963)"", etc. |
| 5/2/1996 | General Election 2nd phase begins in 204 LS and 223 Assembly constituencies spread over 17 States & union territories. |
| 9/12/1962 | Raghav Rangayya, famous Hindi poet, story writer and novelist, died. |
| 5/8/1994 | Harikant Jethwani, famous Sindhi litterateur, passed away. |
| 9/17/1879 | E.V. Ramaswami Naicker, prominent leader of Dravid movement and social reformer, was born at Erode in Tamil Nadu. |
| 1/1/1918 | Sir Edwin Lutyens was knighted in recognition of his quality of work at Delhi and his gratuitious services to the War Graves Commission. |
| 7/3/1897 | Hansa Mehta, educationist and social reformer, was born at Surat (Gujarat). |
| 11/18/1961 | The Navy went into action under the command of Rear Admiral BS Soman, then Flag Officer Commanding, Indian Fleet. The ships conducted their mission in three geographical areas for liberating Goa . |
| 1/1/1994 | This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Year of Family"". |
| 6/5/1995 | A three-week long, the first ever Indo-US joint army training exercise begins. |
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