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Historical Event on 9/27/1958

Mihir Sen becomes the first Indian to cross the English Channel from Dover to Calais.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/1/1854Postal stamp introduced in India. These lithographed stamps were of denominations of half anna and one anna. These stamps bore the Head of Queen Victoria with India at top and value at bottom. The half anna stamp was printed between May 5 to July 29 and printing of one anna stamp commenced on July 26.
4/25/2000West Bengal police nab Belal alias Lalu Mian, the suspected mastermind behind the hijacking of IC-814 IA flight to Kandahar last December, from a hideout in North 24 Parganas district.
7/25/1958Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, inaugurated.
12/4/1796Bajirao became the second Peshwa.
1/21/1952Indian National Congress party wins the 1st General Election of India under the ledearship of Jawaharlal Nehru.
12/7/1825First Steam Engine Ship ""Enterprise"" reached Calcutta.
9/8/1995Harcharan Singh Brar sworn in as the Chief Minister of Punjab.
9/4/1987Roop Kanwar, an 18-year-old girl, commits Sati (burning herself in her husband's funeral pyre) in Deorala in Rajasthan.
2/10/1999P. Gopi Chand (A.P.) and Aparna Popat (Karnataka) won the men's and women's singles titles respectively in the National badminton championship in Delhi.
5/2/1996Controversial godman Chandraswami arrested and sent to high security Tihar jail on a day's judicial custody by a Delhi court for allegedly cheating NRI businessman Lakhubhai Pathak of $1 lakh in 1983.