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Historical Event on 12/25/1979

Opening day of Fourth Test Cricket, India 8-112 v Pakistan at Kanpur.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/15/1988Landslide victory for GNLF in Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council elections.
4/4/1926Martial law is declared in Calcutta as rioting continues.
12/10/1913The Nobel prize for literature was awarded this year to Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali poet from India.
7/11/1973India frees 438 Pakistani prisoners on medical grounds.
5/25/1894Biharilal Chakravorty, bengali poet, passed away.
5/25/1894Sher Shah defeats Humayun near Buxar at Chausa and becomes emperor of Delhi.
10/3/1906Govind Vinayak Devansthali, Sanskrit researcher, dictionary creator, professor and journalist, was born in Bombay.
2/1/1929Jyotirbhaskaracharya Jayant Salgaonkar was born.
8/22/1987Aircraft carrier ship of Indian Navy 'Virat' joined in fleet.
11/9/1877Muhammad Iqbal, Urdu poet, was born in Sialkot (now in Pakistan).