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Historical Event on 3/27/1845

Wilhelm Conrad Von Roentgen, professor and first nobel prize winner, was born at Lennep, Germany.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/23/1962The Cholera Research Centre was established at Calcutta (renamed as the National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases in 1979).
4/30/1863Naval Force East India Comapny was merged with the British Naval Fleet.
4/15/1947Issues with Jinnah a joint appeal for communal peace.
12/10/1997Salman Haidar appointed India's High Commissioner to Britain. He succeeded M. L. Singhvi.
12/10/1997Rumi, famous Muslim Sufi poet, was born.
8/15/1947At the stroke of midnight, India is free after 163 years of British Raj. At the same time Muslims win a degree of freedom from Hindus. They have their own separate dominion Pakistan in the British Commonwealth Sect.
2/2/1986Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India.
2/23/1980Prakash Padukone becomes the first Indian to win All-England Badminton Championship.
3/11/1993Gen. K.V. Krishna Rao returns to Jammu & Kashmir as Governor.
7/10/1999The Delhi police arrest Mohammad Javed alias Babu Bhai, an accused in the Jain Hawala case.