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Historical Event on 2/27/1912

Vishnu Waman Shirwadkar 'Kusumagraj', great Marathi poet, play-wright, novelist and Bhartiya Gyanpeeth Awardee, was born.

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9/28/1965India-Pakistan hostility erupts into a war lead by Pakistan.
2/6/1949India to nationalize the estate of Nizam, the world's richest man, from Hyderabad.
6/20/1918K.K. Singh, politician and social worker, was born at Agra.
1/19/2000Railways retains the Lady Ratan Trophy Women's National Hockey championship.
3/6/1775Raghunath Rao signed treaty of Surat with British ending the first Anglo-Maratha War.
1/16/1818The Rana of Udaipur signed a treaty with the British to protect Mewad.
3/17/1989Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna, president of Lok Dal (B) and former Union Minister, passed away.
9/24/1922Jugal Mondal, social worker and politician, was born at Howrah.
9/24/1922Queen Elizabeth I granted its Royal Charter to the 218 Knights and merchants of the City of London who formed the East India Company. The venture failed to achieve its stated objectives -- it made little impression on the Dutch control of the spice trade and could not establish a lasting outpost in the East Indies.