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Historical Event on 5/27/1992
M. L. Manchanda, AIR's Patiala engineer who was kidnapped by Babbar Khalsa militants, was found executed.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/28/1964 | The simmering dispute of India and Pakistan between the Hindus and Muslims erupted again in Kashmir. Fighting was also reported on this day in the Indian province of Rajasthan. China, which supported Pakistan in the dispute, sent massed troops on its border. |
| 10/24/1995 | A total eclipse of the sun witnessed from India to Vietnam. |
| 5/21/1991 | Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime Minster (1984-91), assassinated by human bomb explosion plotted by LTTE at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu, 40 km from Madras, at 10.20 P.M. |
| 11/27/1962 | Britain agreed to supply arms to India. |
| 1/27/1996 | 'Prithvi', surface-to-surface missile, test-fired successfully. |
| 8/1/2000 | 27 'yatris' (travelers) die after militants attack a ''langar'' in a Pahalgam health resort en route to the Amarnath cave shrine. |
| 10/24/1856 | Veer Narayan Singh, freedom fighter, was arrested by the British Government at Sambalpur for distributing grains from the warehouse to the people. He was sent to jail at Raipur. |
| 8/3/1967 | Rasiklal Das, great revolutionary, died. |
| 1/18/1999 | Gul Panag (20) from Delhi was crowned Femina Miss India Universe at the Miss India 1999 beauty pageant in Pune. |
| 2/18/1911 | Captain Vasudev Belwalkar, who had also written the novels on history and war, was born. |
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