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Historical Event on 9/27/1856

Pratap Narayan Mishra, Hindi writer, was born. He is one of the pioneers of mordern Hindi language.

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1/4/1889Judge M. Patanjali Sastri, Chief Justice of India, was born.
7/15/1904Mogubai Kurdikar, veteran singer of 'Jaypur Gharana', was born.
2/10/1897Sannidhanam Suryanarayana Sastry, educationist and writer, was born at Chiriwada, (A.P).
3/29/1943Shaheed Laxman Nayak, freedom fighter and leader, was hanged at Berhampur Jail.
12/10/1945Aust Services lose third Victory Test Cricket to India by 6 wkts.
8/15/1947Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru becomes the first Indian Prime Minister of free India.
2/14/19674th Parliamentary Lok Sabha Election was held and the election process was completed on 15/02/1967.
11/21/1962India and China declared a truce from the war in which India was badly beaten. Because of winter in China, they halted their advance into India.
2/17/1994Chimanbhai Patel, chief minister of Gujrat, passed away at the age of 65 years.
5/26/1906Benjamin Peary Pal, internationally famous scientist of Indian agriculture, was born at Mukundpur, Punjab. In 1929, he went to Cambridge to do research on wheat and he returned to Burma with a Ph.D. five years later. In 1933, he got a research job with what is now known as the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi. In 1965, Pal became Director General of the newly founded Indian Council of Agricultural Research in New Delhi. He has written several books on roses, the most popular being ""The Rose in India"".