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Historical Event on 2/27/1999
Union Budget presented. Fiscal deficit cut to 4.4 per cent.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/27/1803 | Great fire in Bombay. |
| 7/27/1993 | Rao government defeats the no-confidence motion by 265-251 votes. Seven of the JD (A) vote with government as JD (A) and AIADMK decide to vote for no-confidence motion. |
| 8/7/1925 | Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986. |
| 4/1/1976 | Television was separated from radio, and Doordarshan Corporation was established. |
| 12/14/1998 | The Government introduces the controversial Women's Reservation Bill in the Lok Sabha. |
| 2/3/2000 | Dr. Bimal Jalan, RBI Governor, unveils a seven-point agenda for banking sector reforms. |
| 8/19/1993 | Sharad Pawar elected to Maharashtra Legislative Council from Pune. |
| 1/2/1964 | Raichaudhary Ambikagiri, nationalist Asamia poet, died. |
| 4/27/1906 | China, as suzerain of Tibet, has agreed to the terms of a treaty proposed by Britain. According to the treaty, foreign powers may not send representatives to Tibet, receive transportation or mining concessions, or occupy, buy or lease any territory in Tibet without British permission. The British want to prevent the Russians from establishing a protectorate over Tibet, which lies on India's northern border. Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, failed in attempts to communicate with Tibet's ruler, the Dalai Lama. A British military expedition fought its way to the capital at Lhasa and concluded the agreement. |
| 8/20/1915 | Devraj Ars, former chief minister of Karnataka, was born. |
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