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27 May
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1931 O N V Kurup, Malayalam poet and lyricist from Kerala, was born. He won the Jnanpith Award in 2007, and also Padma Shri in 1998 and Padma Vibhushan in 2011.
- 1949 The trial of Mahatma Gandhi murder case began. It ran for eight months before Justice Atma Charan passed his final order on 10 February 1949.
- 1964 Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, independent India's first prime minister, died in New Delhi.
- 1964 Jawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister of India, died of a heart attack in New Delhi, at age 74.
- 1978 P Kunhiraman Nair, writer of Malayalam literature, died in Thiruvananthapuram. He was known for his romantic poems which detailed the natural beauty of his home state of Kerala as well as the realities of his life and times.
- 2005 Talks between India and Pakistan to break their two-decade-old stand-off on Kashmir's Siachen glacier, the world's highest battlefield, ended in apparent deadlock.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1851 The world's first chess tournament is held in London.
- 1907 Rachel Carson, biologist and author of Silent Spring and The Sea Around Us, was born.
- 1912 John Cheever, Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist and short story writer, was born. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs".
- 1985 Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997.
- 1994 Nobel-prize winning dissident, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile.
- 2016 Barack Obama became the first US president to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha, the survivors of the World War II bombings.
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