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Historical Event on 11/27/1994

Shyam Vyas, veteran Hindi story writer, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/27/1988The first ever helicopter mail service was inaugurated at Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The first flight was from Port Blair to Havelock Island and its inaugurated by the Governer of Andaman and Nicobar Island.
6/11/2000Assailants gun down 12 upper caste persons, including eight of a family in Bihar's Nawada district.
2/5/1949Judgement on Gandhi's murder; Godse and Apte to be executed.
9/21/1945British promise India independence.
5/18/1966Panchanan Maheshwari, great Indian scientist of botany, passed away. He studied the morphology, anatomy and embryology of some angiosperms, the class of plants which produce flowers. He discovered species of plants like ""Panchanania Jaipuriensis and Isoeted Panchananil."" He wrote two authoritative books, 'An Introduction to the Embryology of Angiosperms' & 'Recent Advances in Embryology on Angiosperms'. In 1951, he founded the International Society of plant Morphologists.
1/7/1988Mrs. Janaki Ramachandran sworn in as CM of Tamil Nadu.
8/22/1877Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, great painter, philosopher, linguist, critic, art researcher in the East, was born at Colombo in Sri Lanka.
8/1/1846Dwarkanath Tagore, a Hindu philanthropist, died in London.
7/18/1998The Maharashtra Government bans the controversial Marathi play on Nathuram Godse, assassin of Mahatma Gandhi. It was produced by Mr. Udhay Dhurat.
6/23/1984An Air-India jumbo jet plunged into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland today, killing all 329 people on board. Indian officials said the crash apparently was caused by a bomb placed aboard the jetliner by a Sikh extremist group as retaliation for an army raid.