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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 |
| 9/17/1864 | Anagrik Dharmapal, religious reformer, was born. |
| 7/6/1960 | The President promulgates the ESMA, 1960. |
| 8/4/2000 | Pranab Mukherjee and S. Jaipal Reddy, Congress(I) leaders, get Best Parliamentarian awards for the year 1997-98. |
| 9/27/1977 | Sanjiva Reddy was elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha. Government revokes the external emergency promulgated on December 3, 1971. |
| 2/4/1992 | National Renewal Fund for industries set up. |
| 10/31/1990 | Religious clashes between Hindus and Muslims leave more than 180 people dead. |
| 2/17/1931 | Viceroy of India Lord Irvin accepted Mahatma Gandhi as leader of people and invited him at Vicregal Lodge (now known at Rashtrapati Bhavan). After the event, Winston Churchill, who later became Prime Minister of Britain, referred Gandhiji as ""the Half-Naked Fakir of India"". |
| 3/24/2000 | Rupali Repale of India becomes the first woman and the youngest to swim the Robben Island channel-both ways. |
| 12/22/1871 | Lord Edward Allanbaro, governor general of India (1842-1844), died. |
| 12/16/1867 | Amy Carmichael, Scotch Irish missionary, was born. She went to India in 1895 under the Zenana Missionary Society, remaining there without furlough until her death 56 years later. An invalid during her last 20 years, she worked to rescue children from the Hindus. |
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