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Historical Event on 4/27/1994

Supreme Court strikes down section 309 of the Indian Penal Code(which makes suicide a punishable offence)- violative of Article 21.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/15/1949Nathuram Vinayak Godse and Narayan Dattatreya Apte were hanged in Ambala Jail for Gandhi's murder.
1/29/1781First Newspaper, J.A.Hickey's Bengal Gazette - January 29, 1781.
9/19/1962Jawaharlal Nehru was devastated when China began attacks on India's northern frontier leading to Indo-China War.
5/3/1994Election Commission recognises DMK headed by M. Karunanidhi as the rightful claimant to the symbol of rising sun and the flag reserved for it.
2/4/1973India's then biggest commercial ship merchant fleet 88,000 DWT super tanker ""Jawaharlal Nehru"" commenced its services for the Nation.
5/1/1981Sindhudurga district was formed in Maharashtra State.
1/2/1990Capt. Nivedita Bhasin, 26, becomes the youngest woman pilot in world civil aviation history to command a jet aircraft.
1/6/1948Security Council takes up India's complaint charging Pakistan with aggression in Kashmir.
5/4/1932Many are arrested as Congress agents picket Bombay post offices in celebration of Gandhi Day.
4/17/1996Indian Railways bars AIDS patients from using trains.