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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 |
| 9/29/1999 | Jaswant Singh, External Affairs Minister, meet his Pakistani counterpart Sartaj Aziz meet at the SAARC ministerial meeting. |
| 6/30/1995 | CNN launches a 24-hour news channel in partnership with Doordarshan. |
| 5/28/1950 | Bhagwaticharan, great revolutionary, passed away. |
| 2/11/1942 | Jamnalal Bajaj, greatest iIndustrialist, social reformer, freedom fighter and Gandhiwadi, passed away. |
| 5/8/1997 | Mumbai High Court holds that Christian women can seek divorce on the sole ground of being subjected to cruelty and need not prove infedidelity on the part of their husbands or desertion. |
| 5/10/1936 | Dr. Mukhtar Ahmad Ansari, great freedom fighter, politician, journalist and muslim leader, passed away. |
| 2/8/1936 | Jawaharlal Nehru elected president of Indian National Congress. |
| 3/16/1993 | Bomb blast in a multi-storey building in Calcutta kills 70 people. |
| 4/4/1905 | More than 10,000 people are feared to have perished in an earthquake that hit the northeast Indian province of Lahore during the night. The town of Dharmsala was almost completely razed to the ground with the entire population rendered homeless and sleeping out in icy conditions. Five hundred Gurkha soldiers were buried alive when their stonebuilt barracks collapsed on them. The towns of Kangra and Palampur have also been leveled to the ground by the worst natural disaster measured at 8 on Ricter Scale. In Lahore, 70 Hindus were killed, Muslim inhabitants were parading in the streets, weeping and offering up prayers with ceremonial rites. Several British administrators and missionaries were known to have been killed or injured. At Simla, Lady Curzon, wife of the Viceroy, had a close escape from death when a chimney crashed into the room in which she was sleeping. |
| 9/21/1994 | Ramkrishna Bajaj, freedom fighter and veteran industrialist, passed away. |
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