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Historical Event on 2/27/1996

Manmohan Singh presents the vote-on-account as part of the interim budget in Lok Sabha for 1996-97 with a Rs. 5000 crore deficit.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/26/1992Indian Airlines hike fare by 9 percent.
6/1/1959N.G. Ranga resigned from the Indian National Congress and took up the leadership of the newly formed Swatantra Party.
12/21/1881Pundit Sunder Lal Sharma, freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Rajim, M.P.
3/22/1996Golden Temple renamed Harmandir Sahib (its original name meaning 'abode of God').
8/3/1993Government assures Lok Sabha that it will revive the proposal for a multi-member election commission.
11/18/1974Telex Service started between India and Pakistan.
5/25/19415,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India.
11/7/2000The BJP firebrand Uma Bharti makes a triumphant return to the Union Ministry as Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs and Arun Jaitley gets elevated as Cabinet Minister in a mini expansion. Maj.Gen. (Retd) B. C. Khanduri takes oath as Minister of State for Transport and Highways.
11/15/1911First meeting of the governing body of the Indian Research Fund Association (IRFA) was held at the Plague Laboratory, Bombay, under the Chairmanship of Sir Harcourt Butler.
7/4/1933Mahatma Gandhi sentenced to one year imprisonment.