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Historical Event on 5/27/1930
India's major cities are seething with unrest following the arrest of Mahatma Gandhi and thousands of his followers in the campaign of civil disobedience against British rule. Civil unrest in Bombay, where at least six were killed and sixty injured.
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| 9/9/1997 | G. K. Moopanar, Tamil Maanila Congress president, and his party colleagues Jayanthi Natarajan, Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation, and Peter Alphonse, resign from Rajya Sabha membership following a petition filed by Shiv Sena member Sanjay Nirupam seeking their disqualification 'for defecting from Congress(I)'. |
| 2/11/1993 | Centre bans BJP rally in the capital on February 25. |
| 10/13/1998 | India, Mauritius sign an agreement on civil aviation in New Delhi in the presence of its two Prime Ministers. |
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| 5/14/1996 | H.D. Deve Gowda elected leader of the third front as its prime ministerial candidate. |
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| 5/15/1989 | NAL's 0.6 m transonic wind tunnel is commissioned. Total project cost is about Rs 20 million. |
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