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Historical Event on 5/27/1968
Second Jawaharlal Nehru award for International Understanding given to Reverend Martin Luther King posthumously.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/20/1774 | New Regulating Act was introduced which abolished the East India Company Government and a new Government was formed. |
| 1/11/1966 | Lal Bahadur Shastri was posthumously awarded the ""Bharat Ratna"". |
| 11/5/1996 | United Front suffers a setback with one of its constituents, the Madhya Pradesh Vikas party, deciding to walk out and merge with Congress (I). |
| 2/2/1958 | Family tradition still counts for something in Indian politics. Indira Gandhi, the only daughter of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and the granddaughter of a statesman, has been elected president of the Congress party in India. Mrs. Gandhi will be installed into her new office next Sunday, and her job is not expected to be an easy one. The Congress party has been wracked by internal dissension and has been on the verge of collapse. It is hoped that Mrs. Gandhi, who is 41, will breath some new life into the party. Most of the politicians who have been arguing about the future of their party and country are fairly old. Mrs. Gandhi, who is known for her leftist sentiments, is expected to act quickly to put her own mark on party policies. |
| 5/28/1966 | B. S. Chawla was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 21-02-1973. |
| 7/8/1928 | Eighteen died when an East Indian Railroad train was derailed after saboteurs removed part of the tracks. |
| 10/31/1984 | Indira Gandhi, India's four-time prime minister, was gunned down by two members of her personal security guard as she walked from her home to her office in New Delhi. She died after four hours of emergency surgery. The only daughter of former Prime Minister Nehru was 66. Both of her attackers were identified as members of the Sikh religion. One was shot dead. The other was captured. Sikh extremists had threatened to kill Ms. Gandhi since she ordered the raid on their shrine in Amritsar. She had told an interviewer that she was not intimidated by the threats. 'I am not afraid,' she said. 'I am frequently attacked.' |
| 1/24/1921 | T. N. Raina, former Army Chief and High Commissioner of Canada, was born. |
| 12/14/1998 | The Government introduces the controversial Women's Reservation Bill in the Lok Sabha. |
| 8/18/1990 | Pandit Narayan Chaturvedi, senior Hindi litterateur, died. |
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