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Historical Event on 1/25/1988

Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Dr. Marudu Gopalan Ramachandran, MGR (Posthumous) (1917-1987).

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/22/1977Emergency and 'MISSA' laws were cancelled.
12/5/1931Gandhiji leaves England for India.
5/11/1930Ganesh Narayan R, great Industrialist, was born.
5/25/1917Abdul Vavakunju Ummasalumma Khader, freedom fighter, was born in Kerala. He was hanged on September 10, 1943.
5/25/1917Sher Shah defeats Humayun near Buxar at Chausa and becomes emperor of Delhi.
8/4/1914Gandhiji reaches London and raised Indian Volunteer Corps.
10/10/1978Rohini Khadilkar, fifteen years old, became the first woman to win the national chess championship. Presently, she is the editor of a leading Marathi newspaper of Mumbai 'Nava Kaal'.
9/11/1906Gandhiji addressed a mass meeting of Indians at Johannesburg, where they took oath of passive resistance against the newly promulgated 'Transvaal Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance'.
1/24/1994India sends six proposals to Pakistan to resolve bilateral problems.
10/10/1954First 'President Award' was awarded to film 'Shyamchi Aai'.