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Historical Event on 1/27/1948
Gandhiji visits Mehrauli Muslim Fair.

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5/10/1996	Congress Chief Ministers of Assam, Haryana & Pondicherry resign.
4/4/1905	More than 10,000 people are feared to have perished in an earthquake that hit the northeast Indian province of Lahore during the night. The town of Dharmsala was almost completely razed to the ground with the entire population rendered homeless and sleeping out in icy conditions. Five hundred Gurkha soldiers were buried alive when their stonebuilt barracks collapsed on them. The towns of Kangra and Palampur have also been leveled to the ground by the worst natural disaster measured at 8 on Ricter Scale. In Lahore, 70 Hindus were killed, Muslim inhabitants were parading in the streets, weeping and offering up prayers with ceremonial rites. Several British administrators and missionaries were known to have been killed or injured. At Simla, Lady Curzon, wife of the Viceroy, had a close escape from death when a chimney crashed into the room in which she was sleeping.
5/20/1991	General Election (10th) of India begins.
11/21/1971	Rebellion in East Pakistan (formerly Bengal). Ten million Bengalis flee to India. Indo-Pak border clashes escalate to war. India defeats West Pakistan. E. Pakistan becomes independent Bangladesh.
10/16/1978	Test debut of Kapil Dev, India vs Pakistan, at Faisalabad.
8/23/1986	B. G. Deshmukh was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 27th March, 1989.
2/13/1601	John Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London.
7/1/1821	Daily newspaper 'Mumbai Samachar' was published.
7/15/1986	India protests against China's intrusion of six to seven km into the Indian territory in Arunachal Pradesh.
5/29/1953	Mount Everest conquered by Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay.

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Historical Event on 1/27/1948 Gandhiji visits Mehrauli Muslim Fair.

Historical Event on 1/27/1948
Gandhiji visits Mehrauli Muslim Fair.