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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 |
9/30/1996 | Centre gives its consent to Tamil Nadu government's decision to rename Madras as Chennai. |
6/19/1981 | APPLE, India's first experimental geo-stationary telecommunication satellite having experimental communication satellite, successfully launched by European Ariane, Kourou, French Guiana. This is the first to be stabilized on 3 axes. |
10/5/1993 | Geet Sethi retained World Billiards title by beating Mike Russel. |
9/29/1992 | Andhra CM Janardhana Reddy resigned. |
9/18/2000 | Prasar Bharati issues a notification making it compulsory for cable operators to telecast regional channels of Doordarshan on prime band, in addition to DD-1 and DD-2, in their respective states. |
8/12/1991 | Parliament passes the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (prevention) amendment bill. |
5/15/1873 | The proposal to dissolve East India Company was passed in England. |
9/1/1999 | Dr. S. Srinivasan (58), Director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in Thiruvananthapuram, died. |
5/18/1995 | Sukhomoy Sengupta, 76, Tripura's first CM, passed away. |
4/3/1999 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2E), fifth satellite in INSAT-2 series, launched. This has multipurpose communication & meteorological capabilities. This is still in use. Launched by European launch vehicle Ariane, ISRO has leased eleven 36 MHz equivalent units of C-band capacity on board to INTELSAT organisation. |
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