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Historical Event on 3/27/1999
World No. 2 Viswanathan Anand won the title with a round to spare in the rapid section of the Amber rapid and blindfold chess tournaments in Monte Carlo.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/2/1942 | Andaman Islands, U.S. Army Air Force Flying Fortresses, bomb the Japanese fleet. |
| 11/7/1907 | Murlidhar Shankar Deshpande, journalist and social worker, was born at Kadanachi Girvi Phaltan, Maharashtra. |
| 11/7/1907 | Humayun reconquered Delhi after defeating Sher - Shar Alias Sikandar Suri in Machiwara and Sarhind battles. It is said that he won the crown but not the empire. |
| 10/27/1947 | Indian Governments accepts King of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Harisingh's accession merging Jammu and Kashmir in India and sends its troops. Accession of Jammu and Kashmir was then officially announced. No. 12 Sqn was to initiate the remarkable feat of air-lifting the first Sikhs from Palam onto the rough and dusty Srinagar airstrip without planning or reconnaissance as the initial Indian response to the sizeable insurgent forces that were pouring across the border into Jammu and Kashmir. |
| 5/9/1995 | Two new gas and oil reserves found off the Gujarat and Bombay coast. |
| 9/17/1879 | E.V. Ramaswami Naicker, prominent leader of Dravid movement and social reformer, was born at Erode in Tamil Nadu. |
| 10/16/1971 | David Jude Johnson, cricketer (Karnataka fast bowler, India 1996), was born in Arasikere. |
| 12/10/1761 | Maharani Tarabai of Pune died at Satara.(9 or 10). |
| 4/28/1996 | EC orders re-polling in 69 booths in four states. |
| 5/1/1983 | V. N. Swamy, pace bowler without distinction in one Test for India, passed away. |
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