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Historical Event on 11/27/2000

After three decades, English was again made compulsory in Gujarat schools from Standard V from the next academic year.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/10/1986Pope John Paul II ends visit to India.
2/17/1976Urban Ceilings Act comes into force.
8/26/1996Supreme Court asks Harshad Mehta to pay Rs. 217 crore to the Income Tax department.
3/13/1958Vallathol Narayana Menon, great freedom fighter, poet, literateur and writer,died at the age of 80.
4/4/1998G. Sarala Devi, 62, CPI leader and general secretary of the National Federation of Indian Women, passed away in Hyderabad.
5/1/1998The Konkan Railway running for 760-km is dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. This was an extention from Ratnagiri.
3/10/1954The history of 104 HU, the most prestigious and the oldest Helicopter Unit of the IAF, is studded with more than four decades of glorious past and yeomen service rendered to the country. One-O-Four was raised as Helicopter Flight at Palam on 10th March 1954.
6/13/1999The Indian army secures the strategic Tololing peak in the Dras sector.
5/1/1987The Bofors Deal.
12/11/1991R. G. Sardesai, veteran journalist, died.