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Historical Event on 12/27/1999

PSCB's Prathima Kumari shattered the National clean and jerk mark twice in the women's 58-kg class on the second day of the senior national weightlifting championship in Kalyan.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/5/1930Gandhiji was arrested and imprisoned without trial. As a result there was ''hartal'' (strike)all over India. Over 100,000 people were jailed before the end of the year.
2/14/1929Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.
2/5/1991The last of 1.2 lakh Indians in Kuwait manage to return to India.
4/30/1958Shiekh Abdulla taken into custody.
11/8/1977Bommi Narsing Reddy, famous film story writer and Dadasaheb Phalke awardee, passed away.
6/1/1938Continental Publication' started.
2/12/1871Charles Freer Andrews, great social worker, humanitarian, leader and a true friend of India, was born in New-Castle-on-Tyne in U.K.
1/12/1708Shahu was crowned as the Maratha ruler. Shahu, son of Sambhaji, entered Satara and released Aurangzeb's son Azam the previous year.
1/24/1957Kagaz Ke Phool, the first Indian black and white cinemascope film, was made.
12/4/1990Maharashtra Gomantak Party withdraws support to Goa ministry led by Dr. Luis Proto Barbosa.