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Historical Event on 6/27/1966
D. S. Joshi was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-12-1968.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/1/1854 | Postal stamp introduced in India. These lithographed stamps were of denominations of half anna and one anna. These stamps bore the Head of Queen Victoria with India at top and value at bottom. The half anna stamp was printed between May 5 to July 29 and printing of one anna stamp commenced on July 26. |
| 4/12/1801 | William Carey fort was appointed the Professor of Bengali Language in fort at William College, Calcutta. |
| 2/8/1999 | Gen. K. Sundarji (69), former Chief of Army Staff, died in New Delhi. |
| 7/7/1937 | Jagdish Prasad Goenka, great industrialist, was born in Calcutta. |
| 2/15/1945 | Indian troops capture Pagan at Burma. |
| 8/5/1965 | Jaya Prakash Narayan was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for public service. |
| 10/3/1903 | Swami Ramanand Tirth, politician and educationist, was born. |
| 7/1/1975 | Indira Gandhi, then Prime Minister of India, declared a 20-point economic programme. |
| 7/26/1614 | Jahangir captured Mewar from Rana Amar Singh. A treaty was signed. In the Mughal court, Rana and his son were treated with exceptional courtesy. |
| 6/2/1988 | Raj Kapoor, famous film actor, director and Dadasaheb Phalke awardee, passed away. |
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