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Historical Event on 4/27/1993

A national credit fund for women called the 'Rashtriya Mahila Kosh' set up.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/4/1925Jyotirindranath Tagore, great Bengali litterateur and poet, passed away.
9/22/1979Maulana Abdul Ali Moudoodi aka Syed Abul A'la Maududi Chishti, founder leader of the Jamait- E- Islam, died in USA, he had taken pakistani citizenship.
1/6/1992Sachin Tendulkar completes 148* vs Australia at the SCG.
4/30/1992Import duty on gold halved; minor concessions in direct taxes.
4/3/1999India's INSAT-2E multipurpose telecommunications satellite is successfully launched from the Kourou space station in French Guyana.
1/26/1950India became a Republic within the British Commonwealth and the Indian Air Force dropped its ""Royal"" prefix. At this time, it possessed six fighter squadrons of Spitfires, Vampires and Tempests, operating from Kanpur, Poona, Ambala and Palam, one B-24 bomber squadron, one C-47 Dakota transport squadron, one AOP flight, a communications squadron at Palam and a growing training organisation.
10/17/1994Seshan's controversial biography ''DMK'' obtains stay.
6/22/1935Vaman Viswanath Kumar, cricketer (useful Madras leggie who only played 2 Tests), was born in Madras.
1/11/1958Two lakh Indians in East Pakistan were rounded up and lodged in concentration camps.
3/23/1919Subhadra Joshi, freedom fighter, was born. She took active participation in Salt and non cooperation movement. She also motivated the freedom movement through her newspaper ""Hamara Sangram"".