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Historical Event on 4/27/1854

First telegram was sent between Mumbai and Pune.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/18/1908Fourteen thousand mill workers go on strike at Bombay.
4/1/1935The Reserve Bank of India was established as a Central Bank and the job of issuing notes was entrusted to this bank. The Commissioner's office which issued currency was abolished and was substituted by the Governer of the RBI. The issue offices scattered around the country came to be called as the regional offices of the Reserve Bank.
3/17/1943Indian troops retreat from Rathedaung to Buthidaung in the face of a renewed Japanese offensive on the Arakan front in Burma.
10/14/1998Prof. Amartya Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. He became the sixth Indian, by birth or citizenship, to win a Nobel.
6/1/1933Fortnightly 'Bal Sanmitra' was published.
9/25/1946Bishan Singh Bedi, a former Indian cricketer was born.
5/30/1826The first Hindi newspaper 'Udant Martand' was published from Calcutta under the Editorship of Pandit Shridhar Shukla.
10/2/1954Chandernagar, former under French possession, was made a part of West Bengal.
8/13/1956National Highways Act was approved by the Parliament of India.
4/10/1997Bill Gates, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft, announces Rs. 2.5 crore aid to Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Gandhi Institute of Computer Education and Information Technology, Mumbai.