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Historical Event on 6/27/1998
Mr. Nikhil Chakravartty, journalist and chairman of Prasar Bharati, dies in New Delhi at 84.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/20/1917 | Declaration of historic 'Mongegue'. |
| 6/24/1908 | Gopinath, famous Kathakali dancer, was born. |
| 12/24/1988 | Jaynendra Kumar, famous Hindi novelist, died. |
| 2/3/1992 | Kapil Dev becomes the second highest wicket-taker in Test Cricket when he took his 400th wicket, that of Mark Taylor, in the Perth Test (New Zealand's Richard Hadlee with 431 wickets being the first). |
| 11/30/1759 | Alamgir was murdered by his minister Imad-ul-Mulk. |
| 4/8/1887 | Ramnarayan Vishwanath Pathak, famous Gujrati litterateur critic, poet and story writer, was born. |
| 5/4/1994 | Fourth developmental launch of ASLV. 113 kg Stretched Rohini Satellite Series (SROSS-C2) was launched by fourth developmental flight of ASLV-D4 from Sriharikota. This carried two scientific payload, a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) experiment and a Retarding Potential Analyser (RPA). It is still in service. |
| 2/23/1962 | The Cholera Research Centre was established at Calcutta (renamed as the National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases in 1979). |
| 6/1/1927 | Justice Savyasachi Mukherjee was born. |
| 7/29/1927 | Madhavsingh Solanki, one of the leaders in Gujarat, was born. |
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