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Historical Event on 5/25/1995
Parliament gives assent to Budget and passes Finance Appropriation Bill.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/15/1992 | Karnataka seeks army help to nab sandal wood smuggler Veerappan. |
| 7/13/1999 | Floods claim 15 more lives in Bihar. |
| 3/22/1907 | Perturbed by a new law restricting Asiatic immigrants, Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian attorney now living in South Africa, organized a campaign of civil disobedience to resist the statute popular bill passed by the new Boer government of the Transvaal Colony. The Asiatic Registration Bill was considered by Gandhi unjust and discriminatory to the large Chinese and Indian populations. However, the government expressed the belief that the ordinance was popular. ""Over 90 percent of the white people thoroughly approve of it,"" said Sir Gilbert Parker, a Conservative member of Parliament. |
| 5/4/1995 | The fourth ASLV-D4 blasts off from Sriharikota, successfully placing the SROSS-C2 satellite in orbit. |
| 12/6/1907 | Revolutionaries looted Chingaripota station. |
| 1/16/2000 | Punjab men, Railway women win the Senior National Volleyball championship in Salem. |
| 3/23/1757 | Lord Clive conquered Chandranagar after defeating the French troops. |
| 10/26/1950 | Tirumalai Echambadi Srinivasan, cricketer (Indian opening batsman 1981), was born in Madras. |
| 4/29/1998 | The Reserve Bank reduces the bank rate by one point from 10 per cent in its monetary and credit policy for the first half of 1998- 99. |
| 7/23/1988 | Jahangir Khan, cricketer (4 Tests for India 1932-36), died. |
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