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Significance of 27th March:

 

World Theatre Day is celebrated on 27 March every year  to raise the importance of the art form “theatre” and to act as a wakeup call for governments, politicians, and institutions which have not yet recognised its value.


1871- The first international rugby match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.

1976- The first section of the Washington Metro opens to the public.

2019- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces the country is now a “space power” after successfully shooting down a satellite from space in a ballistic missile test.

2020- North Macedonia becomes the 30th member of NATO.



Famous people who had responded birthdays on this day:

1917- Kamakhkhi Prasad Chattopadhyay, (pen name: Krittivas Ojha) was a famous poet and writer. His father, Basant Kumar Chattopadhyay was the first Indian Auditor General of independent India.

1923- Leela Dube was a renowned anthropologist and feminist scholar.

1960- Mallika Sengupta was a Bengali poet, feminist, and reader of Sociology from Kolkata, known for her "unapologetically political poetry".

1981- Akhil Kumar is an Indian boxer who has won several international and national boxing awards.



Famous people who have death anniversaries on this day:

1898- Syed Ahmed Khan was an Indian Muslim reformer, philosopher, and educationist in nineteenth-century British India.

1915- Pandit Kanshi Ram was an Indian revolutionary who, along with Har Dayal and Sohan Singh Bhakna, was one of the three key members in founding the Ghadar Party.

1966- Pannalal Bhattacharya was an Indian singer of Bengali music. Most of the songs he sang were written by Ramprasad Sen and Kamalakanta Bhattacharya, both of whom were Shakta poets of Bengal.

1968- Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space.

1982- Fazlur Rahman Khan was a world-renowned Bangladeshi-American architect and civil engineer. He designed the Sears Tower (now Willis Tower) in Chicago, the tallest buildings in the world from 1973 until 1998.

2001- Basanti Roy was a figure in the anti-British independence movement of the Indian subcontinent and a female revolutionary. She was popularly known as 'Basanti Bahen'.

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