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Historical Event on 5/27/1998

Minoo Masani, 92, co-founder of the Swatantra Party, passed away in Mumbai after a brief illness.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/8/1992Assets of 31 persons including Harshad Mehta attached.
11/27/2000After three decades, English was again made compulsory in Gujarat schools from Standard V from the next academic year.
5/17/1927A.N. Radhakrishnan, great educationist, was born.
11/27/1999BJP recaptures the Jaipur Civic body posts by winning 49 out of 70 seats.
3/29/1932Sundaram Gundibalirama, right-hand batsman and right-arm medium fast bowler, was born at Udipi in Karnataka.
11/7/1893Constantly Lievens, Flemish missionaries in India, passed away at the age of 37.
4/13/1796The first elephant was brought to America from Bengal, India.
3/2/1996Tendulkar scores 137 for India vs Sri Lanka in Cricket World Cup, but India still lose the match.
12/13/1978Sayyed Avid Husain, litterateur and Padmabhushan awardee, passed away.
11/1/1967Old Punjab, after first partition in 1947, was again seperated into two new states of Punjab and Haryana on linguistic basis, and Chandigarh became a Union Territory.