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Historical Event on 5/27/2000

In a mini cabinet reshuffle, Nitish Kumar gets back his Agriculture portfolio, while Dilip Ray resigns as Minister of State for Steel.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/12/1993Samsher Bahadur Singh, modern Hindi poet, passed away.
11/20/1981Bhaskara-II, India's second experimental remote sensing satellite, was launched by Russian launch vehicle Intercosmos. This provided experience in building and operating a remote sensing satellite system on an end-to-end basis.
6/2/1908Sri Aurobindo, freedom fighter, was arrested in Manik Tala Bomb explosion case.
3/18/1992Shreyanprasad Jain, famous philanthropist and industrialist, passed away.
1/30/1996Mob ransacks Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet in Bangalore.
9/26/1911Prat Kumar Sinha, cricket Test empire for 2 tests from 1948-53, was born in Bengal.
11/27/2000After three decades, English was again made compulsory in Gujarat schools from Standard V from the next academic year.
2/16/1933Surya Sen Masterda, revolutionary freedom fighter, who attacked the Armoury of Chittagong with 62 men of the Indian Republican Army and was underground on Jalalabad Hills, was arrested.
3/6/2000India and China begin the first ever bilateral security dialogue in Beijing on global and regional issues of mutual interest.
4/2/1980Raj Narain expelled from Lok Dal forms Janata (S) Party.