Year 1857
Nana Sahib was captured at Kanpur.
MAY 27
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27 May: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 27 May.
Observances & Special Days
Maharashtra Sahitya Patrika Day.
Year 1906
Gandhiji writes to his brother Lakshimidas, stating his disinterestedness in worldly possessions.
Year 1906
Establishment of Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad.
Year 1906
Maharashtra Sahitya Patrika Day.
Year 1930
Jayaprakash Narayan, Labour Research Cell, arrested after Dandi March.
Year 1930
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was arrested during Salt Movement.
Year 1930
India's major cities are seething with unrest following the arrest of Mahatma Gandhi and thousands of his followers in the campaign of civil disobedience against British rule. Civil unrest in Bombay, where at least six were killed and sixty injured.
Year 1941
WWII – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared a state of emergency.
Year 1948
The trial of nine men accused of assassination of Gandhi before a special court judge at the Red Fort. The trial ended on 30th Dec.
Year 1951
Taraporewala Aquarium was inaugurated at Mumbai by President Dr. Rajendra Prasad.
Year 1952
The use of Hindi language in addition to English language and of Devnagri form of numerals in addition to the international form of Indian numerals was authorised for warrants of appointments of Governors of State, Judges of the Supreme Court and Judges of the High Court.
Year 1952
United Nationalist Party and the Indian Democratic Party combined to form one opposition party - National Democratic Party with Dr. S. P. Mukherjee as leader.
Year 1957
Copyright Act was passed.
Year 1964
Gulzarilal Nanda has entrusted the responsibility as Acting Prime Minster of India. He held this office till June 9, 1964. He is till date the only Acting Prime Minster of India.
Year 1968
Second Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding was given to Reverend Martin Luther King posthumously.
Year 1995
National Centre for Labour launched in Bangalore to give a boost to the unorganised worker's movement in India.
Year 1999
Sharad Pawar, Tariq Anwar and P.A. Sangma launch the Nationalist Congress Party.
Year 1994
Russian-born novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned home to Russia after being in exile in the United States for 20 years.
Year 2016
Barack Obama is the first president of the United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha.
Born 1931
O. N. V. Kurup, a Malayalam poet and lyricist.
Born 1938
Bhalchandra Nemade, an Indian Marathi language writer, poet, critic, and linguistic scholar.
Born 1942
K. V. Vijayendra Prasad, an Indian film screenwriter, and director.
Born 1957
Nitin Gadkari, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Transport
Born 1962
Ravishankar Jayadritha Shastri, cricketer (Indian SLA all-rounder 1981-92), was born in Bombay.
Born 1975
Mike Hussey, an Australian cricket coach, commentator, and former international cricketer.
Born 1977
Mahela Jayawardene, a Sri Lankan cricket coach, and former cricketer.
Died 1910
Robert Koch, a German physician, and microbiologist.
Died 1919
Kandukuri Veeresalingam, father of modern Telugu language, author, and social reformer, passed away.
Died 1935
Ramabai Bhimrao Ambedkar, the first wife of B. R. Ambedkar.
Died 1964
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister and architect of modern India passed away at the age of 74.
Died 1978
P. Kunhiraman Nair, an Indian writer of Malayalam literature.
Died 1986
Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee, an Indian independence activist and politician former Chief Minister of West Bengal.
Died 1994
Tarktirth Laxmanshastri Joshi, an internationally famous omniscient, passed away.
Died 1998
Minoo Masani, 92, co-founder of the Swatantra Party, passed away in Mumbai after a brief illness.
Died 2007
Ed Yost, the American inventor of the modern hot air balloon.
Died 2013
Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri, Indian politician (b. 1917)