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Historical Event on 12/27/1996
Mahashweta Devi, Bengali litterateur, win the Gyanpith Award.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/29/1851 | British Indian Association was established in Bengal with Radha Kanta Dev as president and Devendranath Tagore as the Secretary. |
| 9/23/1983 | Supreme Court upholds execution of criminals through hanging by rope. |
| 1/10/1964 | Battles between Muslims & Hindus in Calcutta. |
| 12/17/1996 | Virendrakumar Jain, famous writer, died in Mumbai. |
| 1/2/1757 | After the Battle of Plassey, Clive, Britisher, defeated Siraj-ud-Daulah, Mir Jafar, Nawab of Bengal and re-captured Calcutta, after it had been seized by the Nawab of Bengal who had used the ""Black Hole"" to imprison British captives. |
| 1/25/1954 | Manabendranath Roy, famous leader of socialist revolution, passed away at Dehradun. |
| 10/21/1998 | Ajit alias Hamid Ali Khan (76), Hindi film actor, dies in Hyderabad. |
| 10/30/1909 | Homi Jahangir Bhabha, famous nuclear scientist, was born in Bombay. |
| 12/20/1999 | Win Chadha ready to come to India to face trial in the Bofors case. |
| 2/6/1996 | Supreme Court upholds election of CPI (M) leader O. Bharathan to Kerala Assembly from Edakkad (91). |
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