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Historical Event on 9/27/1999
Harshad Mehta and three others are convicted for misappropriating surplus funds of the Maruti Udyog Ltd.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/24/1977 | Morarji Desai elected leader of Janata Party and sworn in as the Prime Minister of India at New Delhi. Later he formed his cabinet. He was in the office of Prime Minister till July 28, 1979. This was first non-Congress Government in India. |
| 3/24/1977 | Meerabai, saint poet, passed away. |
| 4/18/1971 | Air India's first Jumbo Jet Plane passenger Boeing 747 named 'Emperor Samrat Ashok' was landed on Santacruz Airport at Bombay. |
| 7/22/1956 | Quake shatters town of Anjar; claiming 117 lives, 800 people were missing. |
| 5/13/1956 | Acharya Vinoba Bhave started the Bhoodan campaign in Tiruvellore. |
| 3/1/1968 | Salil Ashok Ankola, cricketer (Indian pace bowler one Test 1989), was born in Solapur. |
| 2/14/1922 | Bhimsen Joshi, great singer and composer, was born. |
| 1/3/1938 | Jaswant Singh, son of Thakur Sardar Singh, was born in Jasol, Distt. Barmer (Rajasthan). |
| 4/13/1984 | Kerala Government drops Silent Valley Project and declares the entire area a national park. |
| 3/23/1982 | Annasaheb Patil, father of Maratha Mahasangh, passed away. |
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