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Historical Event on 12/27/1926

Imperial Airways announces the first scheduled air service to India from New Year in UK.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/14/1914Eight Language panel were started on the Rs. five denomination again. The printing colour of note was red. These languages were Urdu, Telugu, Kaithi, Tamil, Bengali, Kannada, Burmese and Gujarati.
1/1/1979This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Year of the Child"".
5/19/1975Farm truck packed with wedding party run over by a train, killing 66 in truck, at 40 miles south of Pune.
4/18/1916Iyyer G. Subramaniam, Congress leader, passed away.
5/17/2000The Union Cabinet clears a proposal for setting up a new appellate tribunal for foreign exchange following the repeal of the FERA and the enactment of FEMA in its place.
3/16/1993Bomb blast in a multi-storey building in Calcutta kills 70 people.
4/7/1920Ravi Shankar Bhattacharya, renowned Sitar player (Sounds of India), was born in Banaras, India.
1/4/1967Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. began delivery of the MIG aircraft.
9/15/1967Ramkrishnarao Burgula, Chief Minister of Hyderabad, died.
12/21/1998The Viswabharati University in Calcutta presents the 'Deshikottama' award to Nobel laureate Prof. Amartya Sen.