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Historical Event on 2/27/1803
Great fire in Bombay.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/1/1948 | Baroda State merged into Bombay Province. |
| 8/1/1997 | Lt. Gen. Ved Prakash Malik to be next chief of Army staff. Gen. Shankar Roy Chowdhury retires on September 30. |
| 7/14/1963 | Swami Shivanand Saraswati, religious leader, passed away. |
| 1/9/1946 | Nanalal Dalpatram Kavi, famous Hindi poet, Gujarati litterateur, writer, headmaster and innovator of duel meaning phrases, passed away. |
| 8/8/1968 | Abey Kuruvila, cricketer (promising Bombay fast bowler), was born in Mannar. |
| 8/20/1995 | Indira Mahila Vikas Yojana launched. |
| 4/20/1992 | U. K. Kanitkar, famous scientist, and professor, passed away. |
| 4/8/1950 | Nehru and Ali Khan sign the Indo-Pakistani Pact. |
| 9/4/1962 | Kiran Shankar More, great Indian wicket-keeper in 49 Tests 1986-93, was born in Baroda. |
| 8/10/1860 | Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, the great architect of the renaissance of Hindustani music and who played a vital role in giving re-birth to North Indian classical music, was born at Balukeshwar, Maharashtra. |
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