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27th OCTOBER TODAY IN HISTORY - DINVISHESH GHADAMODI

Today in Indian History
Events for October 27

27-October-1904	Jatindra Nath Das, great revolutionary freedom fighter, was born at Bankim Behari in Calcutta.
27-October-1907	Sardar Bhagat Singh, the great martyr, was born in village Banga, Lyallpur (now in Pakistsan) in a reputed Sikh freedom fighter's family.
27-October-1907	Brahma Bandhav Upadhyay died.
27-October-1920	Kocheril Raman Narayanan was born in the village of Uzhavoor in Kottayam district, Kerala.
27-October-1923	Arvind Navinchandra Mafatlal, famous industrialist, was born.
27-October-1926	Padmanabh Govind Joshi alias ""Nana"" Joshi, cricket wicketkeeper during 1950's was born in Bar
27-October-1928	Dattaji Krishnarao Gaekwad, father of Anshuman and batted in 11 Tests 1950's, was born in Baroda.
27-October-1937	Abdul Karim Khan, famous singer of 'Kirana Gharana', died.
27-October-1947	Indian Governments accepts King of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Harisingh's accession merging Jammu and Kashmir in India and sends its troops. Accession of Jammu and Kashmir was then officially announced. No. 12 Sqn was to initiate the remarkable feat of air-lifting the first Sikhs from Palam onto the rough and dusty Srinagar airstrip without planning or reconnaissance as the initial Indian response to the sizeable insurgent forces that were pouring across the border into Jammu and Kashmir.
27-October-1969	Darshansingh Pheruman died in Amritsar during the 74th day of his fast, which he had undertaken for the merger of Chandigarh in Punjab.
27-October-1973	The first Ladies Police Station started functioning at Calicut in Kerala.
27-October-1982	Gandhiji's personal secretary Pyare Lal died.
27-October-1987	Vijay Merchant, cricketer (Test average 47.72, 1st-class avg 71), died.
27-October-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).
27-October-1992	Veerappa Moily, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, resigned from Bangarappa Government in Karnataka.
27-October-1997	UP ministry expanded by inducting 70 new members thus taking the total number of a record 93 members.
27-October-1998	L. P. Singh, ICS, former Governor of five north eastern states, died in New Delhi. He was 86.
27-October-1999	P.M. Sayeed of the Congress(I) re-elected as the Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
27-October-1999	The Archbishop of Delhi rules out Pope John Paul II's dialogue with the VHP during his visit to India in November.
27-October-1999	Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in Madhya Pradesh splits.
27-October-2000	The Vajpayee Government 'clears' the names of Surjit Singh Barnala, Prabhat Kumar and Dinanath Tiwari for appointment as the Governors of the new States of Uttaranchal, Jharkhand and Chhatisgarh respectively.