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Historical Event on 8/27/1978

Lord Mountbatten died in an explosion near Ireland.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/18/1859Tatya Tope (his original name was Ramchandra Raghunath Tope) a leader of Sepoy Mutiny, was captured in April, courtmarshalled and hanged at Sivpuri for 1857 Indian Mutiny.
1/29/1968Laxmidas Purshottamdas Jai, one Test for India, died.
6/19/1949People of Chandernagar, the French Indian Settlement, decided to merge with the Indian Union.
8/29/1959India sends troops to Tibet border to block the Chinese.
3/23/1967Pandey Bechain Sharma (Ugra) passed away.
1/10/1998Geet Sethi retains National billiards title in Calcutta.
3/19/1954The first helicopter S-55 arrived at Bombay by sea.
6/18/2000K.M. Beenamol breaks P.T. Usha's record in 400m at 51.21 sec in an international meet at Kiev in Ukraine.
12/17/1998Jyotirmoyee bags her second gold at the Asian Games, winning the women's 800m. Rosakutty finishes second. Bantamweight pugilist Dingko Singh clinches a gold while Indian pair of Sethi-Shandilya strikes top prize in billiards doubles category.
7/4/1985Police inquiry said bombs caused Air India jet disaster in New Delhi.