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Historical Event on 6/27/1998

Mr. Nikhil Chakravartty, journalist and chairman of Prasar Bharati, dies in New Delhi at 84.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/12/1996Ram Vilas Paswan presents railway budget 96-97 with 10\% hike in freight and upper class journeys.
3/15/1941Gorkha Rifles Battalion Group (INDBATT) unit was raised as the 4th Battalion, the 2nd King Edward VII's own Gorkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) by Lt Col O'de T Lovett at Deharadun.
12/19/1917Ashoknath Banerjee, Governor of Karnataka, was born.
10/30/1949Pramond Venkatesh Devidas Mahajan was born in Mahaboobnagar (Andhra Pradesh).
5/15/1998Pandit Ravi Shankar, Sitar maestro, receives the 1998 Polar music award.
5/20/1992V. Prabhakaran, LTTE supremo, heads the list of 41 accused in the SIT chargesheet.
11/11/1973India's first International Philatelic Exihibition started in New Delhi.
4/1/1993National Aeronautical Laboratory becomes National Aerospace Laboratories.
9/30/1997At least 20 civilians were killed and over 30 injured in unprovoked firing by Pakistani troops on Kargil town in Jammu&Kashmir.
7/7/196294 people died in an Italian DC-8 air crash near Bombay.