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Historical Event on 8/27/1998
India's cricket sensation Sachin Tendulkar has an audience with the legendary Sir Don Bradman at the latter's 90th birthday celebrations in Adelaide.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/24/1991 | Bhau Samarth, internationaly famed painter, passed away. |
| 12/11/1998 | Poet Pradeep (Ramchandra Divedi) died at 1850 hrs today. |
| 1/1/1998 | The Election Commission announces the poll schedule for the 12th Lok Sabha. The polling will be on February 16, 22, 28 and March 7. Simultaneously, elections are to be held for the Meghalaya, Tripura, Nagaland, Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh Assemblies. |
| 5/13/1791 | Lord Cornwallis retreated back to Madras after the battle of Arikera. |
| 5/23/1924 | Venkatraman Narayan Swamy, cricketer (one Test v NZ in 1955, DNB, 0-45), was born in Calicut. |
| 10/15/1931 | Avil Pakir Jalaluddin Abdul Kalam better known as "APJ", famous Indian scientist, was born in the temple town of Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu. He is the pioneer of India's missile programme and was awarded the country's highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna, in 1997, for his immense and valuable contribution to scientific research and modernisation of defence technol |
| 3/22/2000 | India's first third generation satellite 'Insat-3B' put in orbit by Europe's latest Ariane-5 rocket from Kourou in French Guyana. |
| 2/22/1905 | Purushotamsing Bajaj, industrialist and social worker, was born at Shikarpur (Sind). |
| 12/23/1913 | Gondhavalekar Maharaj, famous saint, died. |
| 3/10/1926 | Dilbagh Singh, Air Chief Marshal, the second Sikh Chief of Air Staff and Indian Air Force, was born in Punjab. |
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