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Historical Event on 8/27/1987

B. Shankaranand appointed Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee to enquire into the Bofors gun deal.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/10/199324th International Film Festival of India opens in New Delhi.
3/4/1906Hakim Abdul Majid started his medial dispensary under the name of Hamdard Dawakhana at Delhi.
12/5/1959K. S. Duleepsinhji, cricketer (12 Tests for England, 995 runs), passed away.
9/20/1819Jose Custodio Faria (Joseph Stadio Faria), revolutionary scientist of Goa died.
6/24/1991The first-ever BJP ministry led by Kalyan Singh takes over in UP.
4/26/1926Karachi Autonomous Region established in RSFSR (until 1943).
9/20/1881Pandit Kashinath Babaji (Chandrakant Bhringa), famous Marathi writer, was born at Munjawad in Nasik.
2/18/1983Violence between Hindu Tamils and Buddhist Singhalese in Sri Lanka marks beginning of Tamil rebellion by Tiger freedom fighters demanding an independent nation called Eelam. Prolonged civil war results.
8/21/1988500 killed near the Nepal border in an earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale.
10/14/1919Raghu Karmkar, famous cinephotographer, was born.