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Historical Event on 5/25/1894
Biharilal Chakravorty, bengali poet, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/17/1988 | First operational Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1A) launched by a Russian Vostok. IRS system under National Natural Resources Management System (NNRMS) coordinated at national level by the Planning Committee of NNRMS (PC-NNRMS) and the data from IRS satellites is processed by the National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad. SI, a US Company, also receives and markets IRS data worldwide under a commercial contract with Antrix Corporation of the Department of Space. |
| 2/19/1974 | Bombay High Oil stock was found in the sea near Mumbai. |
| 1/30/1999 | Paes-Bhupathi stumbled in the doubles final losing to Patrick Rafter-Jonas Bjorkman in the Australian Open Tennis tournament. |
| 8/13/1988 | Gajanan Jagirdar, great actor and director in Indian film industry, died. |
| 5/20/1878 | Bahameni Sultan Dawood Shah was assassinated. |
| 12/12/1989 | Air Chief Marshal (retd.) Arjan Singh named Delhi Lt. Governor. |
| 10/2/1904 | Lal Bahadur Shastri, the second Prime Minister of India (1964-66), was born in Mughalsarai near Benaras in Uttar Pradesh. |
| 2/11/1944 | Buddhadev Dasgupta, director (Charachar, Grihajuddha), was born. |
| 8/22/1992 | Congress (I) with its allies secures a simple majority in the Lok Sabha following the merger of Telugu Desam into the party. |
| 5/21/1835 | Biharilal Chakravorty, Bengali poet, was born. |
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