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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 |
| 3/10/1995 | Ashok Padbidri, famous journalist and editor, died. |
| 5/19/1953 | State to control production and distribution of minerals involved in atomic energy development. |
| 5/13/1998 | India carries out two more nuclear tests at Pokharan in Rajasthan. |
| 1/16/1818 | The Rana of Udaipur signed a treaty with the British to protect Mewad. |
| 3/5/1989 | Baba Prithvisingh, founder of Labour Party, passed away. |
| 6/1/1997 | New postal rates effective; post card-25 p, inland letter-Re.1, envelope-Rs.2 and Registration-Rs.10. |
| 10/28/1999 | Insurance Bill is introduced amid protest in the Lok Sabha. |
| 10/18/1997 | Prince Philip switches on the internet version of Malayala Manorama and The Week at Kochi. |
| 8/30/1979 | Earl 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'. |
| 3/20/1991 | Simultaneous polls in Tamil Nadu. |
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