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Historical Event on 9/27/2000
Venus Williams of USA claims the women's gold in the tennis event in the Sydney Olympics.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/27/2000 | Zahir Al-Din Muhammad Babur Shah, founder of Mughal dynasty, passed away at the age of 48 at Dhaulpur. |
| 3/9/1997 | Bangladesh and Chakma refugee leaders sign a historic agreement for repatriation of the 50,000 refugees sheltered in six camps in Tripura for the past 11 years. |
| 3/20/1951 | Madanlal Udhouram Sharma, cricketer (Indian medium pacer in the 70's), was born in Amritsar. |
| 5/17/1949 | India decided with only one dissent vote to remain within the Commonwealth of Nations. |
| 5/4/1799 | Tipu Sultan is killed in a battle against 5,000 British soldiers who stormed and razed his capital, Seringapatanam. |
| 5/23/1997 | The body of controversial former chief of Tarn Taran district police Ajit Singh Sandhu is recovered from rail tracks near Bhakharpur About 30 km from Chandigarh. |
| 7/1/1985 | Air Chief Marshal L M Katre, PVSM, AVSM and Bar, died in office. |
| 5/28/1964 | A slow-moving funeral cortege containing the body of Jawaharlal Nehru inched through the streets of New Delhi today. A million and a half Indians lined the route to pay final respects to their beloved leader. |
| 9/5/1979 | Earl of Mountbatten's funeral held in Burma. |
| 12/7/1995 | Indian, UN Mission in Bosnia & Herzegovina begin (UNMIBH - Dec 95 To Till Date). |
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