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Historical Event on 7/27/1995

11 Cong-I and National Conference activists were gunned down in J&K after they were abducted from their homes.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/21/1996General Election (11th) of India ended.
4/4/1912Dhundiraj Gopal Sapre, Sahityaratna and Sanskrit litterateur, was born.
4/2/1942Andaman Islands, U.S. Army Air Force Flying Fortresses, bomb the Japanese fleet.
1/14/1990India and Maldives scrap visas.
2/14/1929Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.
12/25/1994Giani Zail Singh, former President of India, died in Chandigarh at the age of 78.
7/7/1799Ranjit Singh captured Lahore in Punjab from Sikh rulers.
10/4/1907Riots in Calcutta.
1/3/1966Chetan Jagatram Manohar Sharma, cricketer (Indian Test pace bowler, World Cup hat-trick 1987), was born in Ludhiana.
4/15/1992Union Carbide decides to sell its holdings in India to raise upto $ 17 million for a hospital in Bhopal.