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Historical Event on 8/27/1987
B. Shankaranand appointed Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee to enquire into the Bofors gun deal.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/22/1986 | India vs Australia Test Cricket at Madras finishes in a tie. |
| 11/25/1866 | Allahabad court was established for Uttar Pradesh territory, it sat in Agra with five Judges between 1866 and 1868. It also has a bench in Lucknow. |
| 3/27/1996 | President and Governors of respective states issue notifications for elections to the 11th Lok Sabha and 6 State Assemblies. |
| 8/17/1998 | The Government issues a notification banning the use of quinacrine, a controversial female contraceptive and sterilization agent. |
| 5/28/1950 | Bhagwaticharan, great revolutionary, passed away. |
| 5/7/1990 | Foundation stones are laid in Ayodhya for a new temple at the birthplace of Lord Rama as Hindu nationalism rises. Government disallows the Shilanyas. |
| 6/23/1971 | Sriprakash, freedom fighter, prolific writer and member of the AICC, passed away. |
| 1/9/1994 | Indian diplomats and staff members evacuated from war-ravaged Kabul. |
| 1/14/1998 | Prof. Amartya Kumar Sen, Economist, is sworn in new Master of the Trinity College. He is the first Asian to head a Cambridge College. |
| 9/24/1999 | India's Krishnan Sasikiran and China's Wang Yu bagged the boys' and girl's titles respectively in the Asian Junior Chess championship in Vung Tau City, Vietnam. |
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