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Historical Event on 8/25/1960
Olympics opened at Rome.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/15/1971 | Dinanath Damodar Dalal, great artist, passed away. |
| 5/2/1769 | Sir John Malcom, former Governor of Mumbai and historian, was born. |
| 4/7/1938 | Kashiram Chhabildas Rana was born in Surat (Gujarat). |
| 1/22/1986 | Satwant Singh, Balbir Singh and Kehar Singh, all sikhs, were sentenced to death for the assassination of India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. |
| 4/15/1895 | Bal Gangadhar Tilak inagurated the Shivaji Mahotsav at Raigad Fort. |
| 3/26/1980 | Bombay gets its first rock concert in 10 years (The Police). |
| 4/17/1945 | Gandhiji, in a statement regarding the ensuing San Francisco Conference, says that 'peace is impossible without equality and freedom of India'. Also demands a just peace for Germany and Japan. |
| 3/3/1982 | Firaq Gorakhpuri ""Raghupati Sahay"", great writer, nationalist and who revolutionised Urdu poetry, died. |
| 5/13/2000 | The Union Government gives its approval for the creation of the three new states of Jharkhand, Uttaranchal and Chhattisgarh to be carved out of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. |
| 7/26/1910 | Unrest flares up in the Deccan region of India. Demand grows for self-determination. |
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