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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.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/21/1996 | Rao resigns Congress Party President post. |
| 12/6/2000 | The Supreme Court gives a clean chit to former Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao upholding the trial court's order, and discharging him and former Union Minister K.K. Tewary from the 'St.Kitts forgery case'. |
| 7/31/1946 | Jinnah threatens sanctions of ""Direct Action"". |
| 1/18/1969 | Prajapita Brahma, great social reformer and freedom fighter, passed away. |
| 3/10/1922 | Gandhiji arrested for the first time in Bombay on the charges of sedition at Sabarmati. |
| 11/29/1869 | Amritlal Vithaldas Thakkar (Thakkar Bappa), social reformer of Gujrat and right hand of Gandhiji in socially segregated Harijans, was born at Bhavnagar, Saurashtra. |
| 11/29/1869 | Maharana Pratap Singh of Udaipur, great freedom fighter, soldier and revolutionary, passed away. His son Amar Singh succeeded him. |
| 6/18/1966 | California's hippie subculture converged into a mass of long hair, flowers, and rock music this weekend, as 50,000 flowed into the fairgrounds of the Monterey International Pop Festival. The event featured the largest collection of major rock acts ever assembled; thousands of fans had to be turned away from the sold-out concert. Established artists such as the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, and the Mamas and the Papas received the expected ovations from the huge audience. But the response was equally enthusiastic for performances by Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar and new talents Janis Joplin, the Who, and Jimi Hendrix, a young man who played the electric guitar like nobody else. |
| 6/18/1978 | The Karakoram Highway, linking Gilgit in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir with Sinkiang in China, is opened. |
| 7/25/1813 | First boat race started at Calcutta on the Hooghly river where seven sailing boats had competed. |
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