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Historical Event on 8/25/1981

Sharad Pawar, Maharashtra leader, elected the President of Congress.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/9/1946Jinnah's 9-point demands conveyed to Congress.
7/1/1968Asia's biggest nuclear research lab started in New Delhi.
8/5/1921Malhi Govind, modern Sindhi novelist, was born.
8/5/1921Queen Elizabeth I granted its Royal Charter to the 218 Knights and merchants of the City of London who formed the East India Company. The venture failed to achieve its stated objectives -- it made little impression on the Dutch control of the spice trade and could not establish a lasting outpost in the East Indies.
6/4/1989Melville de Mellow, Eminent broadcaster, died.
10/4/1974India in apartheid protest refuses to play South Africa in Davis Cup finals.
1/5/199860 are killed as the Bareilly-Varanasi passenger train rammed the Kashi Viswanath Express near Hardoiin, Uttar Pradesh.
11/25/1977John Lobo became the Director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 30/06/79).
2/22/1885Jatindra Mohan Sen Gupta, great nationalist leader, was born.
10/30/1928Madhav Vinayak Gothoskar, cricket Test umpire for 14 tests from 1972-84, was born in Mumbai.