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Historical Event on 8/27/1997
Daljeet Singh and Debi Bose set national records in the Federation Cup athletics at Chennai in javelin throw and hurdles respectively.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/18/1974 | Buddhadev Basu, modern Bengali poet, story writer, playwright and critic, passed away. |
| 8/9/1969 | Ochterlony Memorial in Calcutta was renamed as 'Shahid Minar'. |
| 11/23/1926 | Satya Sai Baba, Hindu universalist renaissance charismatic guru, educationalist and worker of miracles, was born. |
| 3/20/1965 | Venkataraghavan takes 8-72 vs New Zealand at Delhi. |
| 2/19/1993 | Salseng C. Marak sworn in as the Congress-I CM in Meghalaya. |
| 7/2/1992 | Six new ministers inducted into the Union Cabinet. |
| 7/22/1998 | Sahib Singh Verma, Delhi Chief Minister, and BJP vice-president K. L. Sharma are fined Rs. 100 each for riding a motorcycle without helmet in New Delhi. |
| 7/6/1995 | Five foreign tourists trekking in Kashmir 10 km uphill from Pahalgam were abducted by militants. |
| 6/28/1883 | Shivprasad Gupta, social reformer, politician, leader, philanthropist, freedom fighter and educationist, was born at Varanasi. |
| 4/29/1957 | The National Civil Defence College was founded at Nagpur as the Central Emergency Relief Training Institute (CERTI). It functions as the training wing of the Emergency Relief Organisation of the Government of India. |
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