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Historical Event on 10/27/1989
The XIV-World Congress of Neurology was held in New Delhi under the auspices of the World Federation of Neurology and Neurology Society of India. (21-10-89).
Other Historical Dates and Events |
8/3/1998 | 35 persons were killed as Govind Towers at Bandra in Mumbai collapsed. |
7/29/1996 | Aruna Asaf Ali, freedom fighter and player of important role in Quit India Movement, passed away in New Delhi. She was awarded with Bharat Ratna. |
10/5/1864 | Cyclone destroyed most of Calcutta city in which approximately 50,000 people died. |
7/23/1898 | Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, well known Bangla novelist, was born. |
9/16/2000 | Aparna Popat loses to Kelly Morgan in the first round of the badminton event at the Sydney Olympics. |
6/26/1906 | M.P. Sivagnanam, famous Tamil writer and social worker, was born at Madras. |
10/15/1932 | First Indian commercial airliner service 'Tata Sons Ltd' started. (Tata Airlines) |
4/15/1992 | D. T. Lakdawala, former member of Planning Commission, passed away. |
11/29/1988 | Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, resigned as Prime Minister of India, a country which had been ruled by his family for all but five of its 42 years of independence. The end of the dynasty came after elections that were both violent and inconclusive, neither Gandhi's Congress party nor the opposition National Front received a clear majority, although the latter had a few more votes. The only real winner was the fundamentalist Hindu party, Bharatiya Janata, which is now the power broker. If the National Front wants to rule, its leader V.P. Singh needs the religious group's support. |
1/3/1831 | Savitribai Phule, famous social worker, was born at Naigaon in Satara district, Maharashtra. |
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