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Historical Event on 11/27/1998

India retains the Asia Cup tennis championship in Delhi beating Uzbekistan 2-1 in the final.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/2/1861Parafulla Chandra Ray, chemical expert and great patriot, was born in the village of Raruli-Katipara IN Jessore district.
5/9/1919Ram Kumar Gupta, great industrialist, was born at Delhi.
7/15/1903Kumaraswamy Kamraj, great freedom fighter, social reformer, political leader and member of the Lok Sabha, was born in a trading family at Virudhunagar in Tamil Nadu.
1/1/1664Shivaji marched towards Surat.
3/2/1990DMK Front to form government in Pondicherry and Congress (I) in Maharashtra.
9/19/1997Ambar Roy, Indian test batsman (1969-70), died in Calcutta.
9/9/1949Hindi was accepted as the national language of India.
9/18/1972India becomes the top film producer of the world with 433 feature films made in 1971.
5/19/1969Cyclone hit Andhra Pradesh claiming 608 lives and rendering 20,000 homeless.
11/29/2000India strikes a counter-trade oil deal with Iraq as part of an effort to build a strategic relationship with Baghdad.