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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
7/29/1802Agreement between Gaikwad of Baroda and Britishers about the army.
4/24/199824 persons are killed and 28 injured when some bogies of a goods train break free and roll back to collide with the stationary Manmad-Kacheguda Express at Parli Vaijnath in Maharashtra.
11/25/1948National Cadet Corps was first established.
8/13/1928Nationalists issue a draft constitution calling for dominion status and a two-chamber parliament.
11/2/1971Hurricane and ensuing tidal wave takes 6,000 lives.
11/15/1991Import curbs on capital goods relaxed.
2/13/1991Surjit Singh Barnala resigns as Governor of Tamil Nadu.
11/7/1908N. R. Shede (Annasaheb), litterateur and editor, was born.
8/28/1997Election Commission orders that no convicted person will be allowed to contest elections even if an appeal against the conviction was pending in a higher court.
4/4/1889Makhanlal Chaturvedi, famous Hindi poet, writer, Hindi litterateur and President of All India, was born in Babai village, Madhya Pradesh.