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Historical Event on 1/27/1987

P. T. Usha nominated the Asian Athlete of 1986 by the US Sports Academy (USA).

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/24/1993IA's Delhi-Srinagar Boeing with 141 persons, hijacked by a Kashmiri militant lands, in Amritsar.
7/8/1971Krishnarao Arkgudun, versatile Kannad author, died.
5/15/1998The Indian Army at Chandilora (Tangmey) captured 15 kg charas, 400 gm dust of charas and 12 kg leaves of charas.
12/4/1894Swami Brahmanand was born at Hamirpur district in UP. He joined freedom movement and participated in Salt Satyagraha, Non Cooperation Movement and Quit India Movement. He also established Brahmanand Inter College (1938), Brahmanand Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya (1943) and Brahmanand Mahavidyalaya (1960).
12/24/1993Khanprabha Bhaduri, famous Bengali poet and writer, died.
5/23/1947The U.K. Cabinet today took the historic step of agreeing to Lord Mountbatten's proposal for the partition of India into two states, one Muslim and the other Hindu. The Viceroy is to have a series of talks with Lord Listowel, the Secretary for India.
12/10/1902Sir Ronald Ross was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine for detecting the cause of Malaria.
11/14/1959Nehru rejects China's proposal for a mutual withdrawal of troops from a border buffer zone.
2/11/1935Lalita Narhar Bapat, famous marathi novelist, was born.
6/14/1996CBI grills PV Prabhakar Rao, son of former PM, for his involvement in the Rs. 133 crore NFL urea import scandal.