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Historical Event on 5/27/1968

Second Jawaharlal Nehru award for International Understanding given to Reverend Martin Luther King posthumously.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/3/1997Devi Lal floats a new party 'Haryana Lok Dal'.
12/1/1998Dhian Singh (103), freedom fighter dies at Palampur, Himachal Pradesh. He was a member of the Indian National Army and was jailed a number of times during the freedom movement.
5/13/1998India carries out two more nuclear tests at Pokharan in Rajasthan.
1/2/1979Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (vs West Indies).
7/16/1997Kamal Hassan gets best actor award for ''Indian'' while Tabu bags best actress award for ''Maachis''.
2/26/1966Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ""Veer Savarkar"", great revolutionary freedom fighter, social reformer, politician and writer, passed away at the ripe old age of 83. He was known for the first person to flee by swimming from Port Blair Jail and was associated with right-wing Hindu Mahasabha, started the Abinav Bharat as a secret society of revolutionary terrorists. He was a great Novelist and Poet.
7/15/1979Morarji Desai resigns as PM. Jagjivan Ram elected Janata Parliamentary party leader.
9/29/2000A special court convicted former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and his then cabinet colleague Buta Singh in the JMM MPs' bribery case. Nine others got benefit of doubt.
8/19/1944The last Japanese troops driven out of India.
2/22/1873Sir Muhammad Ekbal, writer of song 'Sare Jahanse Achha', was born.