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Historical Event on 7/27/1998
The Centre announces a hefty hike in the pay scales of university and college teachers.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/17/1976 | New Zealand score their first innings win in Tests vs India. |
| 4/26/1990 | V. R. P. Menon, an Air Force Engineer, broke the world record in Chandigargh. |
| 5/1/1999 | India retained the SAFF Coca-Cola football title in Margao, beating Bangladesh in the final. |
| 4/25/1955 | Syed Mohammad Zamin Ali, great educationist, poet, editor, writer, professor and founder-member of the Hindustani Academy, passed away. |
| 1/3/1952 | India adopted birth control program with aid of U.N. World Health Organization. |
| 4/3/1999 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2E), fifth satellite in INSAT-2 series, launched. This has multipurpose communication & meteorological capabilities. This is still in use. Launched by European launch vehicle Ariane, ISRO has leased eleven 36 MHz equivalent units of C-band capacity on board to INTELSAT organisation. |
| 9/30/1961 | Chandrakant Sitaram Pandit, occasional Indian cricket wicket-keeper (late 80's), was born in Bombay. |
| 12/1/1997 | At least 61 persons, including 22 women and 17 children, belonging to SC and extremely backward communities are gunned down by banned private army of feudal landlords, Ranbir Sena, at Bathe-Lakshmanpur village in Bihar's Jehanabad district. |
| 12/29/1997 | Sonia Gandhi stepped into active politics. |
| 1/21/1924 | Professor Madhu Dandavate, former Finance Minister, was born at Ahmednagar. |
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