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Historical Event on 1/27/1974

President V. V. Giri inaugurated the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Museum and it was opened for public at Teen Murti House, New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/27/1974Akbar won the war near Ahmedabad and captured Gujrat.
7/1/1906Pulavar Kulandai, great author and poet, was born at Bhavani.
2/25/1992Beant Singh sworn in as CM of Punjab.
1/18/1968The Resolution on Official Languages was passed by both the houses of the Parliament wherin the need to formulate a more intensive and comprehensive programme for the progressive use of Hindi for Official purposes, preparing annual assessment report for reviewing the progress, formulating a programme for the co-ordinated development of the other languages included in the 8th schedule alongwith Hindi, adopting of a tri-langual formula, making the knowledge of either Hindi or English compulsory for recruitment to the services of the Union, and inclusion of all the languages of the 8th schedule of the Constitution and English as the optional medium for the exams conducted by the union Public Service Commission at the appropriate time, has been stressed.
1/28/1898Nivedita, an Irish lady of Scottish descent, came to India.
7/1/1952Olympic Games open at Helsinki.
3/25/1905Mirza Rasid Ali Baig, famous Indian politician, was born.
4/6/1664Abraham Shipmen died without taking charge of Bombay Islands from Portuguese.
5/13/1998India carries out two more nuclear tests at Pokharan in Rajasthan.
2/17/1998Delhi-Tamil Nadu Ranji Trophy super-league match in Chennai was abandoned owing to pitch tampering.