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Historical Event on 9/27/1833
Raja Rammohan Roy, great social reformer, lawyer and politician passed away at Stapleton Grove in England.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/30/1996 | Supreme Court directs CBI and other govt. agencies to speed up the Jain hawala probe. |
| 9/28/1940 | Pundit Sunder Lal Sharma, freedom fighter and social reformer, passed away. He was also known as ""The Chhattisgarh Gandhi"". |
| 5/28/1968 | Bhagwan Gopinathji Bhan, was a mystic saint of early 20th century Kashmir in India. He has been called a ""jivanmukta"" (liberated soul) or ""Aghoreshwar"" and his spiritual state has been described as ""Shambhavi Avastha"" (state of Shiva), died. He was a great devotee of Shiva and Shakti and took intense "Sadhana". His disciples and devotees set up an ashram at Kharyar in Srinagar in his name. |
| 6/21/1988 | Sikh activist bombers kill 30 in Amritsar. |
| 1/1/1879 | Edward M Forster, English novelist (Howards End, Passage to India), was born. |
| 2/11/1998 | Prof. Anil Kumar Baruah, CPI(ML) candidate for the Dibrugarh Lok Sabha seat, is shot dead by suspected ULFA militants at Neharani. |
| 8/8/1912 | Prabhulal Bhatnagar, mathematician and Padmabhushan awardee, was born. |
| 8/8/1912 | Jalal'ud-din Firuz Khalji establishes the Khalji dynasty at Delhi. |
| 9/19/1996 | India Development Forum pledges $7b. to India. |
| 4/3/1926 | Muslim-Hindu riots destroy temples, killing 12, wounding 100 in Calcutta. |
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