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Historical Event on 2/25/1897
Dr. Amarnath Jha, educationist, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/30/1999 | A B Vajpayee, Prime Minister, calls upon the people at an election campaign in Lucknow to give him a five-year term. |
| 6/2/1953 | Mountaineer Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and his Nepalese Sherpa guide Tensing became the first men to conquer Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain. The two reached the pinnacle of Everest, more than 29,000 feet above sea level, at 11.30 a.m. |
| 5/4/1994 | Fourth developmental launch of ASLV. 113 kg Stretched Rohini Satellite Series (SROSS-C2) was launched by fourth developmental flight of ASLV-D4 from Sriharikota. This carried two scientific payload, a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) experiment and a Retarding Potential Analyser (RPA). It is still in service. |
| 12/20/1956 | Saint Gadgebaba died. |
| 11/22/1718 | Durgadas Rathore, social reformer, died on the banks of the Sipra at Ujjain. |
| 9/5/1988 | The country goes without newspapers on this day as the entire newspaper industry had protested against the Defamation Bill. |
| 8/25/1981 | Sharad Pawar, Maharashtra leader, elected the President of Congress. |
| 10/26/1930 | Gulal Bai Parekar, a14-year-old girl led a 13-girls team to hoist the national flag at Esplanade Park. A police sargeant tried to snach the flag and then kidnapped her. |
| 5/10/1996 | Union Cabinet recommends to President the dissolution of the 10th Lok Sabha. |
| 7/9/1999 | Ashok Mitra (82), noted writer, academician and former bureaucrat, died in Calcutta. |
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