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Historical Event on 8/27/1992
The President issues two ordinances making it mandatory for new medical and dental colleges to obtain prior approval of the Medical and Dental Councils of India before their establishment.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/27/1962 | India and Pakistan begin negotiations over Kashmir. |
| 10/26/1950 | Tirumalai Echambadi Srinivasan, cricketer (Indian opening batsman 1981), was born in Madras. |
| 8/6/1992 | A 30-member JPC constituted to probe the security scam. |
| 1/27/1931 | Mahatma Gandhi was released from jail, ending eight months of imprisonment for his campaign of civil disobedience against British rule. To avoid demonstrations, Gandhi was released late in the evening from the Yerovda jail and put on a night train to Bombay. There was hope in British circles that the release of Gandhi would end the strife and lead to discussions of dominion status. Gandhi made clear, however, that he would persist in his civil disobedience campaign. |
| 8/19/1977 | Earthquake measuring 7.7-8.9 on the Richter Scale hits Indian Ocean. It is believed to be the strongest ever earthquake. |
| 4/3/1700 | Sikandar, former sultan of Vijapur, passed away at Satara in the imprisonment of Mughals. |
| 3/1/1908 | A.E.T. Barrow, educationist, was born. |
| 7/12/1970 | Major flood in Alaknanda river resulted in sweeping of buses and claimed 600 lives. |
| 1/14/1989 | 'Poorna Kumbh', India's largest religious gathering held once in 12 years, begins at Allahabad. |
| 9/8/1997 | English chosen as the official language of Dravidian University which was set up at Kuppam (Andhra Pradesh) jointly by the southern states. |
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