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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
| 05/25/1606 |
Guru Arjun Dev, spiritual leader of Sikhs and Hindus, was massacred at the instruction of Emperor Jahangir. |
| 05/25/1611 |
Emperor Jahangir married Meherunnisa, widow of Sher Afghan. She recieved the title Noor Jahan. |
| 05/25/1877 |
Sir John Lawrence--passenger steamer of McLean & Co. of Calcutta--sank near the coastline of Orrisa in a storm. This ship carried 732 passengers. |
| 05/25/1886 |
Rash Behari Basu, great revolutionary, freedom fighter, social reformer and leader, was born at Palara Bighati village, West Bengal. |
| 05/25/1894 |
Biharilal Chakravorty, bengali poet, passed away. |
| 05/25/1899 |
Nazrul Islam, revolutionary and Bengali poet, was born in Churulia village of Burdwan district. |
| 05/25/1915 |
Mahatma Gandhi established Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad. |
| 05/25/1917 |
Abdul Vavakunju Ummasalumma Khader, freedom fighter, was born in Kerala. He was hanged on September 10, 1943. |
| 05/25/1924 |
Ashutosh Mukerjee, famous educationalist, passed away in Dumraon at Bihar . |
| 05/25/1933 |
All young Hindus aged between 12 and 25 years were forced to carry identity cards to prevent spread of terrorism. |
| 05/25/1936 |
Rusi Framroz Surti, cricketer (Indian slow lefty, hat-trick for Qld 1969), was born in Surat, Gujarat. |
| 05/25/1937 |
Munshi Ajmeri passed away. |
| 05/25/1941 |
5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India. |
| 05/25/1941 |
Sagarmal Gopa, a devoted patriot and freedom fighter, was arrested in Jaisalmer. He wrote two books ""Jaisalmer Rajya ka Gunda Shasan"" and ""Raghunath Singh Ka Mukadma"" for which he was prohibited to enter in Jaisalmer. |
| 05/25/1954 |
Maharshee Rajratna 'Manikrao' (Gajanan Yashwant Manik), physical expert, passed away. |
| 05/25/1961 |
Woorkeri Venkar Raman, left-hand batsman and slow-spin bowler, was born in Madras. |
| 05/25/1965 |
Independent India had further clashes with Pakistan in 1965 and 1971, one over the intractable Kashmir dispute and the other over Bangladesh. A border war was also fought with China in 1962 in the North-Eastern region, which resulted in the loss of Aksai Chin in Ladakh and smaller areas in the North-east. India continues to dispute sovereignty over these areas. |
| 05/25/1979 |
Commercial Unity Day started. |
| 05/25/1990 |
Jag Mohan, J&K Governor, resigns. Girish Chandra Saxena appointed new Governor. |
| 05/25/1991 |
Indian, UN Angola Verification Mission - I ended (UNAVEM - I June 1989 - May 1991). |
| 05/25/1993 |
Kazakhstan offers Baikonur facilities to India. |
| 05/25/1995 |
Parliament gives assent to Budget and passes Finance Appropriation Bill. |
| 05/25/1995 |
Voting on the Criminal Law Bill differed again in Rajya Sabha. |
| 05/25/1996 |
DMK-led coalition ministry headed by R.V. Janakiraman sworn in Pondicherry. |
| 05/25/1996 |
Kathapurushan' wins best film national award. |
| 05/25/1996 |
Maharashta govt. announces decision to revive Sri Krishna Commission set up to probe the 1993 Mumbai riots. |
| 05/25/1997 |
In a bid to break the deadlock on naming transport corporation after caste leaders in southern districts, Tamil Nadu Government agrees to create a new bus corporation named after Pulithevan. |
| 05/25/1997 |
Seven Pakistani infiltrators are killed in an encounter with BSF in Ranbir Singh Pora. |
| 05/25/1999 |
India blasts its way into the global satellite launch vehicle market with the PSLV-C2 deploying two foreign satellites besides the Indian remote sensing satellite, IRS-P4. |
| 05/25/1999 |
The Prime Minister declares the Centre will take all possible steps to push back infiltrators in Kargil. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 03/24/1977 | Morarji Desai elected leader of Janata Party and sworn in as the Prime Minister of India at New Delhi. Later he formed his cabinet. He was in the office of Prime Minister till July 28, 1979. This was first non-Congress Government in India. |
| 11/28/1993 | JRD Tata, 89, passed away in Geneva. |
| 06/11/1998 | Chetak helicopter of IAF rescued a Border Security Force Jawan stuck waist deep in quicksand. |
| 10/06/1974 | Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon, great freedom fighter, barrister, leader, politician, nationalist and member of the Lok Sabha, passed away. He resigned as the defence minister soon after the Chinese aggression. |
| 08/25/1888 | Allama Mashriqi, Muslim leader, was born. |
| 05/07/1849 | Bethune College of Calcutta was established in the upper class families and it was started for female education. |
| 03/02/1997 | Michel Camdessus, Managing Director, IMF, congratulates India on its pursuit of steady and higher economic growth. |
| 09/18/1924 | Mahatma Gandhi was to fast for 21 days in despair of the recent riots between Muslims and Hindus. It was an expression of his 'unbearable hopelessnes'. ""Nothing I say or write,"" he said, ""can bring the two communities together."" Even as he spoke there were reports of further riots at Kohat, in which 20 Hindus and 11 Muslims were killed. Reservations, Gandhi speaking in Allahabad said, reserved the right to drink water with or without salt. ""It is both a penance and a prayer. As it is penance I need not have taken the public into my confidence but I publish it as, let me hope, an effective prayer to Hindus and Muslims, not to commit suicide"". |
| 08/29/1926 | Ramkrishna Hegde, former Central Cabinet Minister and Chief Minister of Karnataka, was born. |
| 02/19/1996 | Biennial elections to fill 39 Rajya Sabha seats in nine states. |
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