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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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