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Historical Event on 3/27/1845

Wilhelm Conrad Von Roentgen, professor and first nobel prize winner, was born at Lennep, Germany.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/26/1946V. K. Ramaswamy, cricket test umpire for 10 tests from 1984-till date, was born at Hyderabad. He has become one of the first Indian Test umpires to be invited to umpire in a foreign country along with P. D. Reporter.
4/16/1958Raghuram Adwai Bhat, great Indian left-arm spinner 1983-84, was born at Mangalore.
5/1/1879Swami Vivekanand established Ramkrishna Mission.
5/27/1964Gulzarilal Nanda was 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.
5/27/1910Robert Koch, famous French scientist, passed away.
8/27/2000Mika Hakkinen wins the Belgian Formula One Grand Prix in SPA-Francorchamps at Belgium.
6/1/1995Kanshi Ram (Bahujan Samaj Party) withdraws support to the Mulayam Singh Yadav-led government in UP and stakes claim to form a new government.
4/20/2000A full bench of the Madras High Court quashes the Tamil Nadu Government order making Tamil (or mother tongue) as the compulsory medium of instruction in all schools in the State up to Standard V.
5/22/1996United Front prime ministerial candidate H.D. Deve Gowda unanimously elected leader of the Front's parliamentary party.
1/25/1976Surinder Amarnath scores 124 on Test debut during India vs New Zealand at Auckland.