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Historical Event on 7/27/1994
Parliament votes to ban tests for determining the sex of an unborn child, as these tests have resulted in thousands of aborted female fetuses.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/14/1883 | Karl Marx, great journalist, chief editor, writer and social worker, died in London. |
| 9/1/1999 | Dr. S. Srinivasan (58), Director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in Thiruvananthapuram, died. |
| 4/16/1903 | Kalka-Simla Railway line section was opened for public conveyance. |
| 1/14/1938 | Belur Math, new temple, was consecrated in Calcutta. |
| 4/15/1794 | Moropant Paradkar, great poet of Marathi in Peshwa kingdom, passed away. |
| 12/31/1998 | Air Chief Marshal Satish Kumar Sareen PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC, retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. |
| 1/11/1994 | Shankarrao Savekar, veteran cameraman of film industry, passed away. |
| 10/24/1934 | Arvindrao Laxmanrao Apte, cricketer (brother of Madhav scored 8 & 7 runs in one Test), was born in Bombay. |
| 5/11/1999 | Centre removes the West Bengal Governor A. R. Kidwai. The Arunachal Pradesh Governor Mata Prasad had also been asked to step down. |
| 9/21/1994 | Outbreak of pneumonic plague in Surat, Gujarat. |
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