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Historical Event on 4/27/1994
Supreme Court strikes down section 309 of the Indian Penal Code(which makes suicide a punishable offence)- violative of Article 21.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/24/1880 | Satyanarayan, great poet of Kannada language, was born. |
| 8/10/1995 | Harishankar Parsai, famous Hindi litterateur, passed away. |
| 9/1/1977 | M. L. Wadhawan was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 02-09-1979. |
| 4/27/1748 | Muhammad Shah, Mughal emperor, passed away and was succeeded by his son Ahmad Shah. |
| 6/1/1944 | Liladhar Jagudi, well known Hindi poet, passed away. |
| 9/11/1875 | Koyaji Jahangir Kuwanrji, famous economist, was born. |
| 10/30/1933 | Dara Nadirsha Dotiwala, cricket Test umpire for 6 tests from 1981-88, was born in Mumbai. |
| 12/15/1803 | East India Company captured Orrisa state. |
| 11/13/1999 | A woman commits 'sati' in Satpura village in Mohaba district of Uttar Pradesh |
| 3/3/1859 | A length of 119 miles of line was laid in the North from Allahabad to Kanpur. |
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