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Historical Event on 8/27/1978

Lord Mountbatten died in an explosion near Ireland.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/19/2000Bill Clinton, US President, arrives to a warm welcome in India. This was the first presidential visit of a US head in two decades.
2/18/1823Gopal Hari Deshmukh, lokhitwadi, was born.
3/27/1993Hari Singh from Haryana hijacks an IA plane, but surrender after 8 hours.
10/18/1901Mahatma Gandhi sails for India.
11/1/1858Her Majesty Queen Victoria was no longer amused with the Company's loss of control, and India came directly under the Crown of 'Princes, Chiefs and People of India'. Britain Government took over administrative powers from East India Company to rule India.
8/3/1994The first successful heart transplant operation was performed at the All India Institute of Medical Science, New Delhi, by a team of doctors led by Prof. P. Venugopal (25-2-96).
3/13/1938Hitler merged Austria in Germany.
1/18/1997Khanna Committee recommends more power to RBI over non-banking financial companies.
9/1/1956Life Insurance Corporation of India was established and all Life Insurance Business Companies were nationalised and merged in this corporation.
11/25/1879Sri Thanwardas Lilaram Vaswani, professor, saint poet, great orator and prolific writer, was born in Hyderabad, Sindh (now in Pakistan). He was the founder of Mira Movement.