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Historical Event on 2/27/1996

Suresh Kalmadi, Minister of State for Railways, presents vote-on-account railway budget; 1995-96 Economic Survey shows 6.3\% growth in GDP; 20\% interim relief for newspaper employees announced by govt.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/11/1987Mahadevi Verma, Gyanpith award winner and one of the greatest luminaries of modern Hindi literature, passed away.
3/26/1931New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of British-Indies.
3/10/1922Gandhiji arrested for the first time in Bombay on the charges of sedition at Sabarmati.
8/27/2000Mika Hakkinen wins the Belgian Formula One Grand Prix in SPA-Francorchamps at Belgium.
2/13/1861Colonel Bernard Irwin attacks & defeats hostile Chiricahua Indians.
5/28/1964A slow-moving funeral cortege containing the body of Jawaharlal Nehru inched through the streets of New Delhi today. A million and a half Indians lined the route to pay final respects to their beloved leader.
12/10/1998Prof. Amartya Sen receives the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics.
2/10/1916Revolutionary Sohanlal Pathak hanged.
7/18/1993India beats France 3-2 in a sensational Davis Cup tie to enter into the semi-final.
2/19/1994IRBM Agni Missile test fired successfully for the third time.