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Historical Event on 4/27/1994
Supreme Court strikes down section 309 of the Indian Penal Code(which makes suicide a punishable offence)- violative of Article 21.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/7/1990 | President returns the Indian Post Office (Amendment) Bills of 1986 to Parliament at the instance of the Government. |
| 8/10/1901 | Narayan Pillai Gopala Pillai, great poet and educationist, was born in Quilon, Kerala. |
| 4/29/1882 | Raja Ali Sayyed, leader of Muslim League, was born. |
| 2/2/1986 | Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India. |
| 1/29/1948 | Angry refugees ask Gandhiji to retire to the Himalayas. |
| 2/26/1966 | Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ""Veer Savarkar"", great revolutionary freedom fighter, social reformer, politician and writer, passed away at the ripe old age of 83. He was known for the first person to flee by swimming from Port Blair Jail and was associated with right-wing Hindu Mahasabha, started the Abinav Bharat as a secret society of revolutionary terrorists. He was a great Novelist and Poet. |
| 4/9/1999 | K. Sasikiran won the National 'A' chess title with a round to spare in Nagpur. |
| 6/19/1947 | Salman Rushdie, English writer, was born in Bombay. |
| 7/19/1955 | Roger Michael Humphery Binny, Indian medium-pace all-rounder early eighties, was born at Bangalore. |
| 2/24/1922 | Kanwar Rai Singh, cricketer (batted at MCG Test for India 1948), was born in Darkati, Punjab. |
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