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Historical Event on 11/27/1998

India retains the Asia Cup tennis championship in Delhi beating Uzbekistan 2-1 in the final.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/6/1996Dr. Raj Kumar was conferred Dada Saheb Phalke award.
12/19/19842,500 killed in Bhopal gas tragedy.
10/3/1984India's longest distance train Himsagar Express (from Jammu Tavi to Kanya Kumari) was first flagged.
3/25/199631st Gyanpith award presented to M.T. Vasudevan Nair at Trivandrum by Dr. Karan Singh.
8/10/1992Ram Niwas Mirdha appointed Chairman of the JPC on scam.
2/3/1992Kapil Dev becomes the second highest wicket-taker in Test Cricket when he took his 400th wicket, that of Mark Taylor, in the Perth Test (New Zealand's Richard Hadlee with 431 wickets being the first).
6/18/1991Congress emerges as the largest party in Lok Sabha polls though short of an absolute majority.
9/24/1999India's Krishnan Sasikiran and China's Wang Yu bagged the boys' and girl's titles respectively in the Asian Junior Chess championship in Vung Tau City, Vietnam.
2/19/1996Biennial elections to fill 39 Rajya Sabha seats in nine states.
5/18/1966Panchanan Maheshwari, great Indian scientist of botany, passed away. He studied the morphology, anatomy and embryology of some angiosperms, the class of plants which produce flowers. He discovered species of plants like ""Panchanania Jaipuriensis and Isoeted Panchananil."" He wrote two authoritative books, 'An Introduction to the Embryology of Angiosperms' & 'Recent Advances in Embryology on Angiosperms'. In 1951, he founded the International Society of plant Morphologists.