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Historical Event on 12/25/1997
India-Sri Lanka one-day cricket match at Indore abandoned after three overs owing to a bad state of the pitch, which was a rare occurance.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/2/1702 | Balaji Vishwanath Bhat, first Peshwa, passed away. |
| 8/20/1979 | Indian premier Charan Singh resigns. |
| 9/23/1965 | The Indian Army secured the Kashmir Valley and the only object left was to clean out the remnants of the Gibraltar Force. Under the guidance of United Nations, the cease-fire came into effect. |
| 6/2/2000 | Justice A. M. Ahmadi, former Chief Justice of India, appointed Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award. |
| 12/7/2000 | A five-member ULFA group guns down 26 non-Assamese people, mostly Hindi and Bengali-speaking, at Sonpura near Arunachal Pradesh Border in Upper Assam. |
| 7/8/1914 | Jyoti Basu, former Chief Minister of West Bengal, was born. |
| 11/20/1989 | Hirabai Barodekar, famous singer of ""Kirana Gharana"", passed away. |
| 7/25/1961 | Delhi upgraded as an A-class city on the basis of provisional Census figures of 1961. |
| 11/23/1946 | Kailasham Tyagraj Paramshiv, famous Kannada dramatist, passed away. |
| 1/3/1997 | Congress President Sitaram Kesri elected leader of Congress Parliamentary Party, and Sharad Pawar appointed leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha. |
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