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Historical Event on 5/27/1996
A. B. Vajpayee, PM, seeks vote of confidence in his 12-day old govt.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/1/1903 | Sachindev Burman (S. D. Burman), famous film music director, was born. |
| 9/29/2000 | India loses to Britain in the play off for the fifth and sixth places in the hockey match at the Sydney Olympics. |
| 1/26/1981 | Sandeep Patil scores memorable 174 vs Australia at Adelaide Oval. |
| 2/28/1900 | Kondedera Madappa Kariappa, first General of independent India, was born. |
| 7/4/1912 | Pandit Nivrittibuwa Sarnaik, singer of 'Jaypur Gharana', was born. |
| 10/23/1970 | If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour |
| 12/29/1959 | Durgapur Iron Plant inaugurated. |
| 10/30/1909 | Homi Jahangir Bhabha, famous nuclear scientist, was born in Bombay. |
| 6/21/1862 | Ganendra Mohan Tagore was the first Indian to get the Barrister-at-Law Degree after passing the examination from Lincoln Inn University. |
| 2/13/1989 | Aubrey Menen (76), Renowned writer, passed away in Kerala. |
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