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Historical Event on 1/27/1999
P. Krishnamurthy, former Indian wicketkeeper, died in Hyderabad following a cardiac arrest.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/26/1997 | Government prohibits manual scavenging and construction of dry latrines in six states (AP, Goa, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tripura, West Bengal) and all UTs. |
| 4/5/1944 | 221 Advance Base Depots laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks and succeeded in safe evacuation of Ordnance stores to an alternate site. |
| 8/1/1957 | National Book Trust inaugurated. |
| 6/26/1954 | Nehru, Chou En-lai pledge good-neighbor policy at New Delhi. |
| 5/18/1972 | Kokan Krishi (Agriculture) University was established. |
| 10/16/1978 | Test debut of Kapil Dev, India vs Pakistan, at Faisalabad. |
| 7/24/1989 | A majority of opposition members in Lok Sabha resign on the issue of C & AG report on Bofors gun deal. |
| 1/1/1981 | This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Year for the Disabled"". |
| 1/1/1981 | Acharya Surdasji, famous poet in Hindi and great devotee of Lord Krishna, was born. |
| 7/31/1940 | Udham Singh, fiery revolutionary, freedom fighter and social reformer, was hanged by the British Government in the Pantone Villa Jail, London. |
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