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Historical Event on 8/27/2000
Mika Hakkinen wins the Belgian Formula One Grand Prix in SPA-Francorchamps at Belgium.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
11/9/1997 | Poonam Chibber, Miss Canada, crowned seventh Miss India Worldwide. |
1/14/1773 | Amstored Lord William Piet, governor, was born. |
10/3/1984 | India's longest distance train Himsagar Express (from Jammu Tavi to Kanya Kumari) was first flagged. |
4/13/1851 | Ganga Ram, great social reformer and an assistant engineer in the Public Works Department, Punjab, was born at Mangtanwala, now in Pakistan. |
2/6/1932 | Dorabji Jamshetji Tata, great industrialist, passed away. |
5/2/1930 | Riots break out in Amritsar. |
2/24/1988 | Prithvi, India's first Indigenously designed surface-to-surface tactical missile of 250km, was successfully test fired from Sriharikota. India becomes the fifth country to develop such a missile. |
8/14/1987 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan (1890-1988), Frontier Gandhi. He is the first non-Indian to receive this honour. |
11/24/1919 | Gandhiji presides over All-India Khilafat conference at Delhi. |
11/13/1995 | The Supreme Court in an unanimous 65-page verdict declares that patients who received deficient services from the medical profession and hospitals were entitled to claim damages under the Consumer Protection Act, 1986. |
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