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Historical Event on 6/27/1964
Teen Murti Bhavan, official residence of the Prime Minister of India, became the Nehru Memorial Museum.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
4/14/1990 | L. P. Poarbosa sworn in as CM of Goa. |
12/15/1997 | Magsaysay award winning litterateur Mahasweta Devi, Sitar maestro Annapurna Devi and Rabindra Sangeet exponent Suchitra Mitra honoured with 'Desikottam' by Visva Bharati University. |
7/15/1955 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was announced to be given to Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) by the President of India, Dr. Rajendra Prasad. |
3/4/1925 | Jyotirindranath Tagore, great Bengali litterateur and poet, passed away. |
12/20/1988 | The Constitution (62nd Amendment) Bill for reducing the voting age from 21 to 18 years receives Parliamentary approval. |
10/16/1942 | Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 people in south of Calcutta, India. |
2/23/1843 | Narendranath Sen, famous journalist, was born. |
5/13/1956 | Acharya Vinoba Bhave started the Bhoodan campaign in Tiruvellore. |
3/28/1999 | Pakistan decides to ease visa restrictions for the aged, women and children from India in response to New Delhi's move towards visa relaxation for several categories of Pakistani nationals. |
10/15/1990 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Dr. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (b-1918), the South African black nationalist leader who arrived in India on a five-day visit. He is the first non-Asian to get this honour. |
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