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Historical Event on 5/27/1968
Second Jawaharlal Nehru award for International Understanding given to Reverend Martin Luther King posthumously.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/27/1992 | Narasimha Rao elected Congress (I) President in the party poll held after a gap of 20 years. |
| 10/1/1928 | Shivaji Ganeshan, famous actor, was born. |
| 5/27/1995 | National Centre for Labour launched in Bangalore to give a boost to the unorganised worker's movement in India. |
| 10/20/1962 | The first IAFunit No. 2 squadron re-equipped with the Gnat at Ambalan and No.9 squadron soon followed suit. |
| 10/21/1916 | Dinkarrai Dhirajlal Desai, cricket Test Umpire for 3 tests from 1955-57, was born in Gujarat. |
| 10/23/1990 | Following the arrest of its President L. K. Advani, who was leading a rathyathra to Ayodhya at Samasthipur in Bihar, BJP withdrew support to National Front Government. |
| 9/9/1949 | Hindi was accepted as the national language of India. |
| 11/5/1930 | Arjun Singh, leader of Madhya Pradesh, was born. |
| 6/14/1990 | Veerendra Verma sworn in as the new Governor of Punjab and Administrator of Chandigarh. |
| 2/26/1966 | Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ""Veer Savarkar"", great revolutionary freedom fighter, social reformer, politician and writer, passed away at the ripe old age of 83. He was known for the first person to flee by swimming from Port Blair Jail and was associated with right-wing Hindu Mahasabha, started the Abinav Bharat as a secret society of revolutionary terrorists. He was a great Novelist and Poet. |
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