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Historical Event on 5/27/1996

A. B. Vajpayee, PM, seeks vote of confidence in his 12-day old govt.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/1/1962Maharashtra State Finance Corporation started its operations.
11/20/1946Gandhiji starts tour without party.
8/4/1997Supreme Court declares that the Rashtrapati Bhavan press communique of 23/1/1992 on a proposal to confer the Bharat Ratna 'posthumously' on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose ""should be treated as cancelled"", as the proposal was dropped by the Government in deference to the sentiments expressed by the public and his family members.
3/5/1851Geological Survey of India was established in Calcutta.
11/1/1996Three national parties (Indira Congress, Janata Party and Samata Party) to lose their recognition as national parties as they failed to get the minimum required support in the general election to the 11th Lok Sabha.
6/4/1997Defence Ministry denies Washington Post's report that India has deployed Prithvi missile on Punjab border with Pakistan.
4/4/1938A. M. Chakrabarty was born in Sainthia at West Bengal. He found that under the optimum conditions of time, temperature and nutrients the Hydrocarbon-eating "qualities'' of four diffrent strains of bacteria could be transferred into one. He also showed that this super-strain of bacteria reproduces itself.
6/1/1927Justice Savyasachi Mukherjee was born.
2/8/1989Mrs. Gro Harlem Brundtland, PM of Norway, was awarded 1988 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development.
8/2/1980Ramshankar Baij, great sculptor, died.