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Historical Event on 5/25/1993
Kazakhstan offers Baikonur facilities to India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/15/1976 | Baichung Bhutia, Indian Soccer(Football) player, was born in Gangtok, Sikkim. |
| 12/8/1999 | Dr. Shankar K. Pal of the Indian Statistical Institute selected for the G.D. Birla Award for 1999. |
| 5/29/1953 | Mount Everest conquered by Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay. |
| 6/1/1992 | Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Academy established at Satara. |
| 10/15/1990 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Dr. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (b-1918), the South African black nationalist leader who arrived in India on a five-day visit. He is the first non-Asian to get this honour. |
| 3/3/1982 | Firaq Gorakhpuri ""Raghupati Sahay"", great writer, nationalist and who revolutionised Urdu poetry, died. |
| 8/15/1947 | At the stroke of midnight, India is free after 163 years of British Raj. At the same time Muslims win a degree of freedom from Hindus. They have their own separate dominion Pakistan in the British Commonwealth Sect. |
| 11/3/1992 | Premnath, hero and villan of Hindi film industry, passed away. |
| 11/7/1991 | Salauddin and his wife Neena create a world record by travelling in a Nissan car. |
| 3/17/1959 | Dalai Lama XIV flees from Tibet after Chinese military occupied Tibet. |
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