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Historical Event on 5/27/1997

Sri Lanka claims Independence Cup, winning the second match in the best-of-three finals in Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/4/1907Riots in Calcutta.
8/22/1933Inhabitants of Partabgarh face starvation as Opium was now outlawed. They had been living from the sale of opium for the past 800 years.
3/5/1922Ebrahim Suleman Maka, Indian cricket wicket-keeper (2 Tests vs West Indies1952), was born at Daman.
9/16/1913Kasturba Gandhi was arrested.
1/28/1846British forcibly separate Kashmir from the Sikhs and sell it to the Maharaja of Jammu for 1,000,000 pounds after the Battle of Allwal.
6/25/1975President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed signed the declaration of Emergency Rule in India. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi implemented the same very next day.
4/18/1916Iyyer G. Subramaniam, Congress leader, passed away.
4/18/1916Vasco-de-Gama was the Last Viceroy of Portuguese, who ruled India.
11/7/1862Bahadurshah Jafar -II died at Rangoon in British prision.
4/5/1979First Naval Museum of India established in Bombay.