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Historical Event on 12/27/1988

The first hot-air Cross India Balloon started its flight in Rajasthan.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/17/1985Dattu Phadkar, cricketer (Indian all-rounder, 31 Tests 1947-58), passed away.
8/21/1879Jahangir Bemanji Petit, famous industrialist, was born.
12/23/1919King's proclamation was made that the new reforms of Government of India offer some sort of self government.
11/16/1993Kashmir's 32-day-old Hazaratbal impasse ends with militants' surrender.
9/22/1952Bapiraju Adiv, famous Telgu novelist, poet and author, died.
9/20/1856Narayan Guru was born in Chempazhanthi village of Kerala. Sri Narayan Guru was a social reformer, led reform movement in Kerala, rejected casteism, and promoted new values of spiritual freedom and social equality. He also stressed the need for the spiritual and social uplift of the downtrodden by their own efforts through the establishment of temples and educational institutions. In the process, he denounced the superstitions that clouded the fundamental Hindu cultural convention of caste.
9/20/1856Property Tax was passed.
10/23/1959Chinese military confrontation with India in Aksai Chin killed 17 Indian soldiers in a clash on the Kashmir border.
9/5/1957Wealth Tax Bill passed in Rajya Sabha.
2/12/1932Roby James Francis D. Silva, great industrialist, artist and designer, was born at Bombay.