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Historical Event on 5/25/1996
Kathapurushan' wins best film national award.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/23/1994 | Two Britishers held hostage by terrorists in Kashmir for 17 days were set free. |
| 2/7/1981 | 61 die in circus fire in Bangalore. |
| 10/5/1990 | Parliament passed the 76th Amendment Bill to extend President's rule in Punjab for another six months from November 10, 1990. |
| 11/17/1966 | India's beauty queen Rita Faria was crowned as 'Miss World' in World Beauty contest held in London. She was a medical student. |
| 9/17/1998 | Rabri Devi, Chief Minister of Bihar, expands the Cabinet, inducting nine ministers, even as the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (Soren) group formally withdraws support to her ministry. |
| 10/23/1970 | If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour |
| 8/23/1942 | Gorabai Katiya, freedom fighter, was shot by police while participating in a procession for freedom movement in Narsihapur. |
| 1/15/1998 | Gulzari Lal Nanda, Gandhian freedom fighter and twice acting Prime Minister in 1964 and 1966, died in Ahmedabad at the age of 100 years. |
| 3/12/1992 | A devastating wave of car-bomb explosions killed an estimated 300 people and injured hundreds more today in the large western Indian port city of Bombay. The first blast ripped through the city's stock exchange building, and minutes later a dozen slightly less powerful explosions rocked the bustling city center.The bomb attacks appeared to have been part of a carefully planned operation.The devices were clearly meant to cause maximum loss of life and damage to property. |
| 10/2/1972 | Broadcasting of Mumabi Doordarshan started. |
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