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Historical Event on 8/25/1963
Allama Mashriqi, Muslim leader, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/16/1996 | Narasimha Rao moves Delhi High Court seeking quashing of the summons issued against him by Chief Metropolitan Magistrate in the Lakhubhai Pathak cheating case. |
| 2/3/1925 | First Electric Train started its journey from Bombay V. T. (presently known as C.S.T.) to Kurla. This train was on the Central Railway, Bombay. |
| 4/20/1992 | U. K. Kanitkar, famous scientist, and professor, passed away. |
| 6/3/1924 | Muthuvel Karunanidhi, politician and playwright, was born in Thirukkuvalai (Thanjavur). |
| 6/4/1987 | A Swedish Government enquiry finds that Bofors paid commission to middlemen for concluding Arms Purchase Agreement with India. |
| 2/18/1993 | Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"". |
| 3/3/1847 | Alexander Graham Bell, great pioneer, inventor and professor, was born at Edinburgh, Scotland. |
| 7/31/1952 | Bela Mitra, commander of ""Nari Vahini"" and activist of ""Azad Hind Fauj"", passed away. She also worked as partition refugee. |
| 3/10/1999 | Lok Sabha approves the Patents (Amendment) Bill 1999, by a voice vote. |
| 5/6/1680 | Chatrapati Rajaram Maharaj was crowned. |
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