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Historical Event on 7/27/1998

7 Hindus are gunned down in two Doda villages of Jammu and Kashmir.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/24/2000Rupali Repale of India becomes the first woman and the youngest to swim the Robben Island channel-both ways.
6/2/1984Army takes control in Punjab as 22 people are killed in Sikh struggle for autonomy. The state is declared a restricted area under the Foreigners' Act.
2/2/1978The Indian National Congress (I) recognized as a national party and allotted the election symbol 'hand' (Palm).
11/16/1913Agnihotri Ambadas Shankar, journalist and litterateur, was born.
4/11/1856Lievens Constantly, Flemish missionary in India, was born.
3/20/1997Greek instrumental composer Yanni Chryssomallis's 'Freedom Concert' held at the Taj, Agra.
10/26/1952Pakistan's first Test cricket win vs India. Fazal Mahmood took 12 wkts .
11/2/1992Nine Maharashtra ministers resign.
12/29/1977World's biggest Drive-In theatre started screening in Bombay.
6/20/1996Govt. of India declares at Geneva conference on 'Global Ban On Nuclear Testing' that it won't sign the CTBT.