On This Day
27 June
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1806 Augustus De Morgan, British mathematician and logician, was born in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. He formulated De Morgan's laws and introduced the term mathematical induction, making its idea rigorous.
- 1839 Ranjit Singh, popularly known as Sher-e-Punjab or "Lion of Punjab", the first Maharaja of the Sikh Empire, died. He ruled the northwest Indian subcontinent in the early half of the 19th century.
- 1939 Rahul Dev Burman, music director and actor, who is considered one of the greatest and most successful music directors of Hindi Music Industry, was born in Kolkata.
- 1964 P T Usha, retired Indian track and field athlete, was born in Kuthali, Kozhikode, Kerala. She has been associated with Indian athletics since 1979. She has won 4 Asian gold medals and 7 Silver medals.
- 1964 The Teen Murti Bhavan, which was the official residence of Jawaharlal Nehru, was converted into the Nehru Memorial Museum.
- 2008 Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, who was the Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, died at Wellington, Tamil Nadu. He was the first Indian Army officer to be promoted to the rank of field marshal.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1787 British historian Edward Gibbon completed The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
- 1880 Helen Keller, American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer, was born. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness when she was 19 months old.
- 1898 Joshua Slocum became the first person to successfully circumnavigate the earth alone when he landed his 36-foot-9-inch sailboat in Newport, Rhode Island, after a 46,000-mile trip.
- 1954 The world's first nuclear power plant is activated at Obninsk in present-day Russia. It remained in operation for 48 years.
- 1977 Djibouti gained its independence from France.
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