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Historical Event on 5/25/1886
Rash Behari Basu, great revolutionary, freedom fighter, social reformer and leader, was born at Palara Bighati village, West Bengal.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/23/1946 | Commonwealth Occupation Forces in Japan, exchanging its Spitfire Vllls for Mk XlVs in October and arriving in Japan aboard HMS vengence. |
| 11/18/1960 | Raghunath Chaudhary, famous natural poet of Assam, passed away. |
| 4/26/1895 | Guru Baksha Singh, modern Punjabi litterateur was born. |
| 6/22/1994 | L. V. Prasad, father of South Indian film industry, died. |
| 8/1/1939 | Bombay begins Prohibition, first since U.S. law was repealed. |
| 7/23/1918 | Saraswati Devi (Smt) Illindala, great Hindi writer, journalist and social worker, was born at Narsapur, Andhra Pradesh. |
| 12/12/1908 | Gaandhiji released from Volksrust Gaol. Indian National Congress adopts resolution on South Africa, criticizing the harsh, humiliating and cruel treatment to British Indians in South Africa as injurious to English Empire. |
| 9/28/1924 | In penance for riots, Gandhi, on hunger strike in Delhi, proclaimed he would break his fast only at death. |
| 5/1/1977 | Janata Party was established. |
| 3/18/1938 | Shashi Kapoor, famous film producer, director, actor and dramatist, was born in Calcutta. He has made sucessful films like Junoon, Kaliyug, Heat and Dust, etc. |
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