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Historical Event on 5/27/1930

Jayaprakash Narayan, Labour Research Cell, arrested after Dandi March.

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3/22/1914M. L. Bhowmik, social reformer and politician, was born Kailashahar, Tripura.
9/10/1920Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao was born at Hadagali in Karnataka. In 1945 he put forward the ""theory of estimation"" in statistics. His formulae and therorems, for instance the ""Cramer-Rao inequality"", ""The Fisher-Rao theorem"" and ""Rao-Black Wellistaion"" are now part of any standard textbook of statistics. For his significant contributions, Rao received the S. S. Bhatnagar Award, the Meghnad Saha Medal and the Guy medal.
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12/12/1964HJT-16, the first Indian jet trainer, made its inaugural flight.