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Historical Event on 5/25/1941
5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
1/12/1992 | India and Russia sign a new political treaty. |
6/22/1994 | Law for the betterment of women introduced. |
1/2/1964 | Raichaudhary Ambikagiri, nationalist Asamia poet, died. |
8/1/1962 | Establishment of Maharashtra State Industrial Development Corporation. |
1/27/1987 | P. T. Usha nominated the Asian Athlete of 1986 by the US Sports Academy (USA). |
11/21/1914 | Ujwala Mazumdar, freedom fighter and member of Bengal Valunteers, was born at Dhaka. |
2/24/1986 | Rukmini Devi passed away. |
1/21/1969 | First India built electronic digital computer commissioned. |
7/25/1938 | Gautam Kalicharan, famous Hindi poet, was born. |
1/8/1964 | Jack ""Murph the Surf"" Murphy, 27, and a companion were arrested in Miami as suspects in the theft of $410,000 rare gems from the American Museum of Natural History in October of last year. The world's largest sapphire, the Star of India, and eight of the other 22 stolen gems were returned to New York in an attorney's coat pocket, having been recovered in two water-logged suede pouches from a Miami bus terminal locker with the help of a third suspect. The three described themselves as ""beach boys."" Murphy is a sometimes an aquatic clown, but mainly they were notorious jewel thieves. Murphy was also accused of pistol-whipping actress Eva Gabor and stealing jewels worth $50,000 from her a year ago. |
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