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Historical Event on 8/27/1958
Metric system of weights and measures introduced.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/6/1910 | Satakopan Chandilyan Bhashyam, journalist, was born at Tirukkoilur, Madras. |
| 9/25/1990 | Prafull Chandra Sen, former Chief Minister of West Bengal and Gandhian leader, died in Calcutta. He was 94 years old. |
| 7/17/1987 | V. P. Singh announces resignation from Congress; R. Venkataraman elected President of India. |
| 7/11/1957 | Aga Sultan Sir Muhammad (1877-1957), Aga Khan III, spritual leader of Ismaeli Muhammedans, passed away. He worked for Britian in the WW I & II. Aga Khan was extremly rich, he once had himself weighed against a sack of diamonds belonging to him. He was also one among those who formed the Muslim League. |
| 9/15/1862 | Gaurishankar Hirachand Oza, famous historian, was born. |
| 9/6/1995 | New broad gauge train ""Palace on Wheels"" started between Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. |
| 1/18/1998 | India overtake a Pakistan total of 314 to win one-day final in Dhaka. |
| 2/15/1976 | The Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering (CIAE) was established at Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi. |
| 12/15/1988 | Landslide victory for GNLF in Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council elections. |
| 8/1/1846 | Dwarkanath Tagore, a Hindu philanthropist, died in London. |
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