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Historical Event on 2/25/1897
A. Vedaratnam, freedom fighter, nationalist and leader, was born in an orthodox Saiva Vellala community.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/15/1817 | Battle of Yerwada. |
| 7/25/1987 | Giani Zail Singh (1916-1994) retired from the post of seventh President. |
| 10/13/1987 | Kishore Kumar Ganguly, well known singer, died in Bombay. |
| 8/25/1960 | Olympics opened at Rome. |
| 1/8/1941 | Swami Pranabananda Maharaj, father of Bharat Sevashram Sangha, passed away. |
| 10/1/1854 | Postal stamp introduced in India. These lithographed stamps were of denominations of half anna and one anna. These stamps bore the Head of Queen Victoria with India at top and value at bottom. The half anna stamp was printed between May 5 to July 29 and printing of one anna stamp commenced on July 26. |
| 10/12/1946 | Ashok Vinoo Mankad, cricketer (son of Vinoo, batted for India 1969-78), was born in Bombay. |
| 5/9/1997 | Hareesh Khandelwal, an accused in the fodder scam, commits suicide by jumping before a train at Dhanbad in Bihar. |
| 6/11/1991 | Forty die in rioting in Srinigar, Kashmir. |
| 7/27/1928 | Rameshwar Sahai Saxena, famous writer, lawyer and journalist, was born at Lalitpur, (UP). |
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