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Historical Event on 4/27/1748
Muhammad Shah, Mughal emperor, passed away and was succeeded by his son Ahmad Shah.
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| 5/11/1999 | Supreme Court confirms the death sentence on four of the 26 accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, reduces to life imprisonment the sentence on three others and acquits the remaining 19. |
| 5/15/1999 | Militants gun down Abdul Ahad Kar, a senior member of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly belonging to the ruling National Conference, in Kupwara district. |
| 9/1/1977 | M. L. Wadhawan was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 02-09-1979. |
| 8/15/1995 | P.V Narasimha Rao introduces the mid-day meal scheme for the primary school children under the Central Government Welfare Programme. |
| 6/11/2000 | Assailants gun down 12 upper caste persons, including eight of a family in Bihar's Nawada district. |
| 12/1/1886 | Raja Mahendra Pratap, great revolutionary freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Musran in U.P. |
| 7/19/2000 | The Centre has no locus standi in Thackeray case, says the Prime Minister and rejects the resignations of Shiv Sena nominees in the Union Cabinet-- Manohar Joshi, Suresh Prabhu and Balasaheb Vikhe-Patil. |
| 2/23/1969 | Madhubala, famous Hindi film actress, passed away. |
| 7/20/1903 | British to increase size of Royal Army in India. |
| 5/8/1997 | Mumbai High Court holds that Christian women can seek divorce on the sole ground of being subjected to cruelty and need not prove infedidelity on the part of their husbands or desertion. |
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