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Historical Event on 8/27/1995

Andhra Pradesh Governor asks N T Rama Rao to prove his majority on 31st following a split in the Telugu Desam party.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/1/1994Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
9/29/1977India and Bangladesh signed settlement for distributing Ganga river water.
6/23/1894Edward VIII, king of Great Brit/N-Ireland and emperor of India (1936), was born.
8/25/1997Forest outlaw Veerappan seeks more time to decide on his surrender as per the terms of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka government.
6/18/1966California's hippie subculture converged into a mass of long hair, flowers, and rock music this weekend, as 50,000 flowed into the fairgrounds of the Monterey International Pop Festival. The event featured the largest collection of major rock acts ever assembled; thousands of fans had to be turned away from the sold-out concert. Established artists such as the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, and the Mamas and the Papas received the expected ovations from the huge audience. But the response was equally enthusiastic for performances by Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar and new talents Janis Joplin, the Who, and Jimi Hendrix, a young man who played the electric guitar like nobody else.
9/30/1972Pakistani troops shell into the Indian zone of Kashmir.
12/12/1905Mulkraj Anand, Indo-Anglian novelist and critic of international repute, was born in Peshawar, Pakistan.
8/22/1980Kishor Shahu, actor and director, died.
9/12/1994UN Secretary General Ghali visits New Delhi.
8/19/1887S. Satyamurti, freedom fighter and social worker, was born at Thirumeyyam in the former Pudukottah State.