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Historical Event on 7/27/1994
Parliament votes to ban tests for determining the sex of an unborn child, as these tests have resulted in thousands of aborted female fetuses.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/16/1920 | B. Sathyaji Rao, cricket Test umpire for 17 tests from 1960-79, was born in Karnataka. |
| 4/2/1679 | Aurangzeb reimposed Jizya Tax to finance the spread of Islam on the Hindus.This Jeziya tax was abolished by Akbar. |
| 2/22/1948 | Jayalalitha, chief minister of Tamil Nadu, was born. |
| 11/30/1986 | Sikhs hijack bus, killing 24 at Punjab. |
| 5/10/1905 | Pankaj Malik, music director, was born. |
| 9/23/1996 | Sitaram Kesri elected provisional president of Congress (I). |
| 9/2/1992 | Shripad Deshpande, senior journalist, passed away. |
| 9/9/1872 | Sarladevi Chaudharani, Bengali poet, was born. |
| 4/5/1944 | 221 Advance Base Depots laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks and succeeded in safe evacuation of Ordnance stores to an alternate site. |
| 9/5/1659 | Queen Saibai, wife of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, died. |
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