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Historical Event on 7/27/1972

Charu Majumdar, father of Naxalite Movement and the founder President of C.O.I.(M-L), died in prison.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/6/1939Manmohan Sood, cricketer (scored 0 & 3 in his only Test for India), was born in Lahore.
4/1/1989Bengal regains Santosh Trophy by beating Kerala.
11/15/1920Assembly meeting of the League of Nations.
9/30/2000India's Priyanka Chopra (18) wins the Miss World beauty pageant.
8/4/1929Kishor Kumar Ganguly, well known singer, was born at Khandava. He is also rememberd as a comic actor, director and musician.
9/18/1803Second Anglo-Maratha war under Sir Arthur Wellesley resulted in a crushing defeat of the Marathas at Assaye. The British Christians captured Delhi and acquired control of large parts of India.
8/9/1970Trailokyanath Chakravarty died in Delhi.
8/15/1947India gains independence from the British rule and Pakistan emerges as a separate Islamic nation. Around 600,000 die in clashes during the subsequent population exchange of 14 million people between the two new countries.
8/20/1998The Punjab and Haryana High Court upholds the conviction of former Punjab DGP K.P.S. Gill for outraging the modesty of an IAS officer Mrs. Rupan Deol Bajaj.
5/17/1897Dhirendra Varma, famous linguist, was born.