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Historical Event on 4/27/1996
General Election (11th) of India begins.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/30/1992 | Import duty on gold halved; minor concessions in direct taxes. |
| 10/31/2000 | The Income Tax Department 'indicts' five cricketers - Kapil Dev, Ajay Jadeja, Manoj Prabhakar, Nikhil Chopra and Ajay Sharma - for tax evasion and concealment of income earned through ""dubious sources' |
| 2/1/1835 | East India company obtained Darjeeling from the King of Sikkim. |
| 6/21/1991 | P. V. Narasimha Rao was sworn in as the ninth Prime Minister of India. He reimained in this office till May 16, 1996. He formed a 54-member ministry in the 10th Parliament. |
| 9/24/1992 | Karnataka High Court stays government order granting permission to open nine private engineering colleges. |
| 9/14/1967 | US announces plan to give India $1.3 million to buy contraceptives. |
| 3/19/1936 | Raghav Kaneria, great artist and decorator, was born. |
| 1/14/1959 | Indira Gandhi, Nehru's daughter, emerges as leading choice for president in New Delhi. |
| 6/1/1964 | Nava Paisa, established in 1947, was renamed as 'Paisa'. |
| 10/1/1932 | Indian Milatary Academy became functional with Brigadier LP Collins, DSO, OBE as the Commandant. The first course of 40 GCs had on its rolls Sam Manekshaw, Smith Dun and Mohd Musa, later to be Chiefs of the armies of their respective countries, i.e. India, Burma (now Myanmar) and Pakistan. This training was for a period of two and a half years. |
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