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Historical Event on 1/27/1994

55 miners, trapped inside New Kenda Colliery of Eastern Coal Fields, die.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/14/1907P. C. Joshi, famous Leftist leader and thinker, was born.
8/15/1965Television starts in New Delhi.
5/7/1994Dr. S.P. Tripathy, Director-General of ICMR, retired after 32 years of distinguished service in the ICMR, and Dr. G.V. Satyavati took over as the new Director-General of ICMR in July 1994. She became the first woman scientist in the country to head not only ICMR but any Research agency in independent India.
3/21/1971Gavaskar scores the first of his 34 Test tons, 116 at Georgetown.
3/19/1954The first helicopter S-55 arrived at Bombay by sea.
1/24/1994Singapore PM Goh Chok Tong arrives in New Delhi on a state visit.
7/4/1900Swami Shivanand Saraswati, religious leader, was born.
2/25/1938Farokh Manekshaw Engineer, great Indian cricket wicket-keeper (1961-75), was born in Bombay.
4/13/1890Ramchandra Gopal Torne (Dadasaheb), film director, was born.
5/25/1997In a bid to break the deadlock on naming transport corporation after caste leaders in southern districts, Tamil Nadu Government agrees to create a new bus corporation named after Pulithevan.