Vancouver, Surrey Indian Community - BCIndian.com
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 11/27/2000

After three decades, English was again made compulsory in Gujarat schools from Standard V from the next academic year.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/1/1994Six leading Akali factions dissolved to form a new party, the Shiromani Akali Dal-Amritsar, which wanted a 'Sikh State'.
8/11/1993Brahmaprakash Chaudhary, first Chief Minister of Delhi and former central minister, died.
7/17/200055 persons die as a Boeing 737 of Alliance Air from Calcutta to Delhi via Patna and Lucknow crashes at Gardanibagh, one km from the runway at the Patna airport.
12/20/1969Nihalsingh Gurumukh, former Chief Minister of Dehli and Governor of Rajasthan, died.
6/17/1994Twelve opposition legislators in Sikkim resign.
5/4/1959Nehru rejects proposals that India and Pakistan resolve their differences and set up a common alliance against Communist China.
9/10/1999Top seeds Bhupathi and Paes finished runners-up in the US Open doubles, losing to Sebastien Lareau and Alex O'Brien in the final.
2/7/1864P. S. S. Iyyer, famous lawyer and educationalist, was born.
3/4/1858J. P. Walker, British Officer, along with 200 prisoners who were mainly from the Indian Sepoy Mutiny, sailed from Calcutta to start a new settlement in the Andaman Islands.
1/2/1964Raichaudhary Ambikagiri, nationalist Asamia poet, died.