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Historical Event on 1/25/1932
Rammanohar Vishnunarayan Tripathi, great social worker and political leader of Maharashtra, was born.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
1/6/1948 | Security Council takes up India's complaint charging Pakistan with aggression in Kashmir. |
9/15/1860 | M. Visveswarayya, maker of modern Karnataka, was born. He was a notable engineer too. |
11/30/1974 | India, Pakistan decide to end the ten-year trade ban. |
12/25/1954 | Manvendranath Roy, great patriot, died. |
6/22/1897 | The Chafekar brothers, Damodar and Balkrishna, shot British Officer Rand in Pune. This event played a very important role in the revolutionary freedom fighter. |
11/19/1985 | Lall Singh, cricketer (one Test for India 1932), passed away. |
6/17/1947 | Burma was adopted as republic by constitution assembly. |
1/2/1947 | Mahatma Gandhi met Lord Bevin, the personal emissary of British Prime Minister Winston Churchil, in Delhi. Beven is reported to have told the great man, ''Eighteen languages, 500 dialects, some 30 religions, a million Gods and Goddesses, 300 million individuals, an infinity of castes and sub castes, and a population (that is) practically illiterate and half of which (are) beggars or thieves... Good luck, sir! Such a nation is ungovernable! It'd take you centuries to get anywhere!''. Gandhiji wrapped his large, white shawl a little more closely around him, and modestly replied, 'India has eternity before her.. and ""All around me is utter darkness"". |
10/30/1996 | Pop star Michael Jackson arrives in Bombay. |
11/19/1977 | Cyclone hits Andhra Pradesh causing flooding and tidal waves and killing 10,000. |
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