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Historical Event on 5/27/1919
Kandukuri Veeresalingam, father of modern Telgu language, author and social reformer, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/27/1936 | Golden Jublee Session of Indian National Congress, under the presidentship of Jawaharlal Nehru, held at Faizpur urging India to strike at British imperialism. |
| 1/26/1950 | India became a Republic within the British Commonwealth and the Indian Air Force dropped its ""Royal"" prefix. At this time, it possessed six fighter squadrons of Spitfires, Vampires and Tempests, operating from Kanpur, Poona, Ambala and Palam, one B-24 bomber squadron, one C-47 Dakota transport squadron, one AOP flight, a communications squadron at Palam and a growing training organisation. |
| 1/5/1974 | Virendranath Dasgupta, great revolutionary, died. |
| 9/28/1929 | Lata Mangeshkar, great playback singer, was born. |
| 9/28/1929 | Father Francis Xavier, Spanish founder of the Jesuits, 35, and three friends set sail from Lisbon, Portugal for Goa. They became the first Roman Catholic missionaries to travel to India. |
| 5/6/1680 | Chatrapati Rajaram Maharaj was crowned. |
| 1/24/1994 | India sends six proposals to Pakistan to resolve bilateral problems. |
| 12/28/1983 | Gavaskar achieves his 30th century beating Bradman's 29. |
| 10/12/1997 | India Seniors lift Challenger Trophy cricket title. |
| 12/28/1925 | Kasturbhai Lalbhai Shrenik, great industrialist, was born at Ahmedabad. |
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