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Historical Event on 2/25/1993
113 MPs arrested and Murali Manohar Joshi injured in police action.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
7/8/1888 | Fenardish Jyoki Antoniu, Konkani author and journalist, was born. |
8/22/1933 | Inhabitants of Partabgarh face starvation as Opium was now outlawed. They had been living from the sale of opium for the past 800 years. |
8/28/1997 | Tiwari and Surinderjit Kaur set national records in hammer throw in Federation Cup Athletics. |
7/21/1947 | Indian Constitution Assembly accepted the tricolour flag as its National Flag. This flag is with three equal horizontal stripes of Saffron (Sacrifice), White (Truth) and Green (Prosperity) and a Chakra is superimposed on white (Dharma Chakra on the capitol of Ashoka's Pillar at Sarnath) in blue colour having 24 spokes. The ratio of the width to length is two to three. |
2/11/1818 | Britishers captured the 'Ajinkyatara' fort which belonged to the Marathas. |
11/14/2000 | Jharkhand, the 28th State of the Indian Union, comes into being and the new Governor, Prabhat Kumar, and the Chief Minister, Babulal Marandi, take office. |
4/21/1998 | The services of 12 non-railway chairmen of Railway Recruitment Boards are terminated. |
4/21/1998 | Don Francis-Di-Almeda of Portugal arrived at Cochin as Viceroy of India. |
2/21/1998 | Romesh Bhandari, U.P. Governor, dismisses the Kalyan Singh Government and inducts an 18-member ministry headed by Jagadambika Pal of the Loktantrik Congress Party. BJP moves the Allahabad High Court. BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate, A. B. Vajpayee, goes on a ""fast-unto-death"". |
4/4/1999 | India routed China 5-0 in the Davis Cup Asia Oceania Group I second round play-off in Calcutta. |
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