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Historical Event on 2/27/1912
Lawrence Durrell, Britsh writer (Alexandria Quartet, Private Country), was born in Darjeeling, India. .
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| 11/27/1881 | Kashi Prasad Jayaswal, great lawyer, philosopher and eminent historian, was born at Mirzapur, UP. |
| 8/29/1931 | Gandhi arrives in London for second Round Table Conference on India. |
| 12/20/1990 | Supreme Court stays Delhi High Court judge Justice Chawla's orders on the Bofors issue. |
| 3/1/1994 | Manmohan Desai, famous Hindi film maker, passed away. He was 57. |
| 5/11/1626 | Malik Ambar of Ahmednagar's Nijamshahi kingdom, passed away. |
| 7/7/1799 | Ranjit Singh captured Lahore in Punjab from Sikh rulers. |
| 12/30/1971 | Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai, famous nuclear scientist, died. |
| 2/9/1942 | Chiang Kai-Shek meets Sir Stafford Cripps, British Viceroy in India. |
| 1/14/1998 | Prof. Amartya Kumar Sen, Economist, is sworn in new Master of the Trinity College. He is the first Asian to head a Cambridge College. |
| 6/12/1960 | 783 Sikhs are arrested while demonstrating for an independent Sikh state in New Delhi. |
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