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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 |
| 5/20/1776 | Malharrao Holkar, founder of Indoor, passed away. |
| 8/30/1983 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1B) launched. This was also a multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite, which served for more than its design life of seven years. It was launched by a US Space Shuttle. |
| 9/25/1928 | Madhavrao Gadkari, great litterateur and editor, was born. |
| 12/26/1831 | Hennry Louis Vivian Derozio passed away. |
| 12/19/1917 | Ashoknath Banerjee, Governor of Karnataka, was born. |
| 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. |
| 3/9/1951 | Ustad Zakir Hussain, famous Tabla player, was born. |
| 4/17/1998 | BJP Prof. Chaman Lal Gupta retains his Lok Sabha seat in the Udhampur-Doda-Kathna constituency defeating National Conference's Rajinder Kumar Chib by over 50,000 votes. |
| 6/20/1993 | Harshad Mehta's senior counsel Ram Jethmalani asks JPC to summon the PM and allow cross-examination. |
| 9/14/1820 | Agri-Horticultural Garden of Calcutta started functioning. |
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