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Historical Event on 7/27/1998
B. B. Lyngdoh is sworn in Meghalaya Chief Minister.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/24/1995 | A full Bench comprising Chief Justice M.M. Pareed Pillai, TV Ramakrishna and P. Shanmugam of the Kerala High Court quashed the words ""incestuous adultery"", ""adultery coupled with cruelty"" and ""adultery coupled with desertion"" contained in Section 10 of Indian (Christian) Divorce Act. |
| 2/14/1914 | Vinaya Kumar Parashar, journalist and social worker, was born at Hemgir, M.P. |
| 11/11/2000 | Harin Pathak, Union Minister of State for Defence, resigns after being chargesheeted by a sessions court in Ahmedabad in a case relating to the murder of a head constable at the height of the anti-reservation agitation in 1985. |
| 6/2/1953 | Mountaineer Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and his Nepalese Sherpa guide Tensing became the first men to conquer Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain. The two reached the pinnacle of Everest, more than 29,000 feet above sea level, at 11.30 a.m. |
| 9/26/1911 | Prat Kumar Sinha, cricket Test empire for 2 tests from 1948-53, was born in Bengal. |
| 7/25/1982 | Dr. Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1913-1996) retired from the post of sixth President. |
| 1/4/1924 | Vidyadhar Gokhle, editor, playwright and politician, was born. |
| 5/15/1949 | Matsya Union formally merged with Greater Rajasthan. |
| 2/2/1982 | Geet Sethi becomes the youngest Indian to win the National Billiards' crown at Madras. |
| 2/2/1982 | Royal Charter forms the East India Company, setting in motion a process that ultimately results in the subjugation of India under British rule. |
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