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Historical Event on 2/27/1987

UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar recieved the Jawaharlal Nehru award for International Understanding.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/30/1947Gandhiji leaves Patna for Delhi. Mountbatten, new Viceroy, arrives in Delhi.
11/7/1936Chandrakant Devtale, famous Hindi poet, was born.
9/12/1990Konkan Railway project formally launched with the opening of a project office in Ratnagiri in Maharashtra State.
6/24/1966Atul Chandrakant Bedade, cricketer (Indian ODI batsman from 1994), was born in Bombay.
1/11/1966Lal Bahadur Shastri was posthumously awarded the ""Bharat Ratna"".
10/30/1976Elections to the lower house of the Indian Parliament suspended again until early 1978.
3/5/1916Biju Patnaik, famous Oriya leader and Chief Minister, was born.
3/18/1990Devi Lal, Deputy PM, withdraws his resignation.
12/12/2000A special court for CBI cases rejects Hinduja brothers' plea and summons them to appear on January 19, 2001.
1/1/1903Sen also produced the first publicity films of India--""Jaba Kusum Hair Oil'' and ''Edward's Anti-malaria Specific''. He also filmed the celebrations of the Coronation of King Edward VII at Calcutta.