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Historical Event on 12/27/1987

Vijaypal Singh sets a record for TJ in 16.79s at Trivandrum .

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/11/1911Prem Bhatia, great journalist, was born.
6/25/1922Satyendranath Datta, famous Bengali poet, passed away.
6/30/1997Gujarat floods claimed 170 lives.
4/17/1996Indian Railways bars AIDS patients from using trains.
1/5/1934Dr. Murli Manohar Manmohan Joshi was born in Delhi.
2/24/1961Government of Madras province was renamed as Tamil Nadu.
1/29/1993Test debut of Vinod Kambli, prolific Indian batsman.
8/11/2000Koneru Humpy was crowned the youngest British Ladies chess champion at the end of eleventh and final round in the Smith and Williamson British chess championship in Somerset.
4/5/1848Satara kingdom came to end.
8/30/1979Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'.