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Historical Event on 5/27/1968

Second Jawaharlal Nehru award for International Understanding given to Reverend Martin Luther King posthumously.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/21/1998India declares a moratorium on nuclear testing.
7/27/1927Krishna Baldev Vaid, famous story writer and novelist, was born.
2/14/199813 bomb blasts take place in Coimbatore an hour before the BJP president Advani was to address a campaign meeting; 52 people killed.
12/20/1990India and Pakistan agree not to attack each other's nuclear installations.
2/19/1812Congregational missionaries Adoniram Judson, 23, and his wife Ann, 22, first sailed from New England to Calcutta. (Judson eventually concentrated his labors in Burma).
11/8/1988Salman Rushdie's 'The Satanic Verses' awarded 1988 Whitbread Prize.
10/21/1906Gandhiji went to England till Nov 30 on deputation to present Indians' case to Colonial Secretary.
8/17/1970The first microwave link, which was set up without foreign assistance, was commissioned between Asansol, Dhanbad and Ranchi.
11/8/1999The Government announces waiver of telephone bills up to Rs. 1000 in the rural areas of cyclone-hit Orissa.
2/10/1986Pope John Paul II ends visit to India.