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Historical Event on 9/27/1989

Hemanta Kumar Mukherjee, noted playback singer and music director, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/28/1895Shankarrao Dattatray Dev, veteran Congress leader, Gandhian and Sarvoday leader, was born.
11/17/1966India's beauty queen Rita Faria was crowned as 'Miss World' in World Beauty contest held in London. She was a medical student.
12/19/1961Goa was liberated after Portuguese surrendered to the Indian troops.
6/21/1999Leander Paes was seeded number one in double's ranking. This was his highest double ranking.
11/1/1996K.L. Chugh and J.N. Sapru, former chairmen of ITC, remanded to custody in connection with FERA violation case.
4/30/1992Import duty on gold halved; minor concessions in direct taxes.
1/1/1973Indian General Insurance Corporation nationalised.
4/27/1960Presidential orders were issued on the report of the Committee of Parliament on official Languages which includes issues relating to preparation of terminology (Hindi glossaries, Hindia translation of codes and procedural literature, imparting training in Hindi to employees propagation of Hindi, language of bills, language to be used in the Supreme Court and High Court etc).
6/23/1927All India Radio's broadcasting service started in 1927 by privately owned transmitter at Bombay and Calcutta.
6/23/1927Jesuit father and first Englishman S.J.Thomas Stephens arrived at Goa in a Portuguese ship. He settled here and died in 1619.