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Historical Event on 12/27/1998

Nobel laureate Prof. Amartya Sen unveils his plans to set up a charity trust with the award money for development of education and health in India and Bangladesh.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/10/1984White Paper on Punjab released by Union Government.
10/16/1968Hargovind Khorana, Indian scientist, was awarded 1968 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology on man-made synthetic gene.
7/23/1996India's admission to Asian Regional Forum was endorsed by Foreign Ministers of the group at Jakarta.
10/20/1969Punjabrao Agriculture University established.
6/18/1989India and Pakistan decide to end the five-year-old confrontation in Siachen Glacier area by redeploying their forces.
4/12/1978After several state victories, Congress party-I (for Indira) is recognized as official opposition.
10/12/1995Inderjit Gupta re-elected General Secretary of CPI.
6/20/1911Dattatray Purushottam Karmarkar, veteran freedom fighter and former cabinet minister, died.
12/13/1978Sayyed Avid Husain, litterateur and Padmabhushan awardee, passed away.
1/28/1902Gandhiji left for Rangoon visit. Stays for a month with Gokhale at Calcutta. Returns to Rajkot and settles down to practise.