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Historical Event on 6/27/2000
Maneka Gandhi, Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment, launches National Initiative for child protection of which childline is an integral part.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/19/2000 | Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, agriculture scientist, gets the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 1999. |
| 8/25/1959 | Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister, declares in New Delhi that India will defend Bhutan and Sikkim if attacked by China. |
| 5/28/1907 | Purohit Dingambar Vinayak (Nanasaheb), leader in Maharashtra, was born. |
| 5/14/2000 | L. K. Advani, Union Home Minister, announces extension of the ban on the LTTE by two more years. |
| 12/25/1991 | Ajit Singh expelled from the JD. |
| 10/14/1998 | Prof. Amartya Sen (Indian Nobel Laureates), the economist-philosopher, awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his contribution to welfare economics. |
| 7/31/1914 | Amar Nath Chawla, politician, was born at Taunggri, (Burma). |
| 2/18/1993 | Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"". |
| 9/30/1996 | Centre gives its consent to Tamil Nadu government's decision to rename Madras as Chennai. |
| 7/17/1893 | Lokmanya Tilak was arrested for 18 months. |
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