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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
8/21/2000Uma Bharti, the sanyasin Member of Parliament of the BJP, resigns from the Lok Sabha and the party's national executive comittee.
1/9/1995T.N. Seshan, chief election commissioner, asks Centre to put off annual budget in lieu of State assembly elections.
8/29/1905Major Dhyanchand was born in a Rajput family at Prayag at Uttar Pradesh. He is remembered as a Master of Hockey. India celebrates this day as National Sports Day.
10/2/1996Mother Teresa made honorary US citizen.
12/16/2000Indian Airlines wins the 60th National Hockey championship in Jammu.
10/30/1887Sukumar Roy, famous Bengali children's litterateur, was born.
2/3/1905Sir Padampat Singhania, great industrialist, was born at Kanpur.
11/15/199237 die in a landslide at Meghamalai near Chinnamanur.
7/17/1987V. P. Singh announces resignation from Congress; R. Venkataraman elected President of India.
10/15/1977The Congress party denies bid by Indira Gandhi to regain leadership.