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Historical Event on 6/27/1967

First Indian made AVRO aircraft passenger Plane HS748 handed over to Indian Airlines.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/22/1907Perturbed by a new law restricting Asiatic immigrants, Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian attorney now living in South Africa, organized a campaign of civil disobedience to resist the statute popular bill passed by the new Boer government of the Transvaal Colony. The Asiatic Registration Bill was considered by Gandhi unjust and discriminatory to the large Chinese and Indian populations. However, the government expressed the belief that the ordinance was popular. ""Over 90 percent of the white people thoroughly approve of it,"" said Sir Gilbert Parker, a Conservative member of Parliament.
11/8/1988Salman Rushdie's 'The Satanic Verses' awarded 1988 Whitbread Prize.
8/22/1922Alluri Seetaram Raju inspired and organised the tribals to wage a war against the British. Raju's army raided Chintapalli police station and there was regular warfare between him and the British forces.
6/13/1931Gandhi to live in a garret amongst the poor in London.
2/23/1993Jnanpith Award was given to Sitakant Mahapatra (Oriya).
12/1/1970T. Swaminathan was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 02-11-1972
11/20/1917J.C. Bose Research Institute was established in Calcutta.
10/1/1995Hastimal Firodia, astrologer and industrialist, died.
3/17/1982President's rule in Kerala.
11/10/1989Foundation stone laid for the Ram Janambhoomi temple at Ayodhya.