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Historical Event on 5/25/1877
Sir John Lawrence--passenger steamer of McLean & Co. of Calcutta--sank near the coastline of Orrisa in a storm. This ship carried 732 passengers.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
8/8/1946 | India agrees to give Bhutan 32 miles. |
5/18/1992 | President R. Venkataraman reaches Beijing. |
11/19/1992 | M. Veerappa Moily selected to become the new CM of Karnataka. |
7/31/1933 | Gandhiji was arrested from Sabarmati Ashram and imprisoned without trial. |
1/29/1870 | 'Hicleche Bengal Gazette' newspaper published in India. |
12/4/1993 | Mulayam Singh Yadav, takes over as CM of UP; Bhairon Singh Sekhawat of Congress sworn in as CM of Rajasthan. |
6/29/2000 | The Election Commission derecognises seven regional parties in some states -- Samata Party in Haryana, Shiv Sena in Dadra and Nagar Haveli and the RJD in Manipur, NTR-Telugu Desam Party in Andhra Pradesh, the Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) in Chandigarh, the United Minority Front in Assam and the Haryana Vikas Party in Haryana-- These will remain registered but unrecognised parties. |
12/15/1943 | The Vengeance suffered numerous defects and teething troubles, necessitating temporary withdrawal from the two IAF squadrons, but the problems were eventually mitigated if not eradicated, and No. 8 Sqn flew its first operational Vengeance sorties against Japanese targets from Double Moorings, Chittagong. |
6/16/1893 | Karumuttu Thiagarajan Chettiar, social worker and industrialist, was born at Athikkadu Thekkur in Tamil Nadu. |
10/30/1997 | Kerala Kaumudi's Kannur edition and Internet edition begin. |
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