History of 27th December: Today is December 27, people looking for new hopes in the new year have to wait for just 4 days, but this is a matter of the future. Now if we talk about history, then today is also very important from the point of view of history. Especially if you look at this day from the point of view of the world, then you will see it more special.
Actually, on this day in the year 1985, 16 people were killed and more than 100 people were injured in the attacks of extremists on two cities of Europe. In the first attack at Italy’s Rome International Airport, 6 gunmen fired indiscriminately. A total of 13 people including three gunmen were killed in this incident. In a second incident, three attackers threw a hand grenade at passengers on a Tel Aviv-bound flight at Vienna airport in Austria. Three people died in this. Apart from this, many other big incidents are registered in the name of 27 December. Let’s know about some big events.
Historical events of 27 December
- 1797: Birth of great Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib.
- 1911: ‘Jana Gana Mana’ was sung for the first time during the Calcutta (now Kolkata) session of the Indian National Congress.
- 1939: About forty thousand people died due to earthquake in Turkey.
- 1960: France conducted the third nuclear test in the Sahara desert of Africa and went one step further on the way to develop nuclear missiles.
- 1975: 372 people died in Chasnala coal mine accident in Dhanbad district of Jharkhand.
- 1979: Soviet army attacked after political upheaval in Afghanistan.
- 1985: 16 people were killed and more than a hundred were injured in the attack of extremists at Vienna and Rome airports in Europe.
- 2000: Pre-marital relations were given legal recognition in Australia.
- 2007: Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto died in a bomb attack and firing near Rawalpindi.
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