|
|
Historical Event on 7/25/1982
Dr. Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1913-1996) retired from the post of sixth President.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/17/1999 | Sonia Gandhi resigns as Congress president but the CWC(I) rejects it. |
| 2/26/1966 | Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ""Veer Savarkar"", great revolutionary freedom fighter, social reformer, politician and writer, passed away at the ripe old age of 83. He was known for the first person to flee by swimming from Port Blair Jail and was associated with right-wing Hindu Mahasabha, started the Abinav Bharat as a secret society of revolutionary terrorists. He was a great Novelist and Poet. |
| 5/27/1857 | Nana Sahib was captured at Kanpur. |
| 4/25/1982 | India's first telecast colour broadcasting started on Dordarshan. |
| 4/7/2000 | The Delhi police unearth a multicrore cricket betting and match- fixing racket involving five South African cricketers, including the captain Hansie Cronje. A Delhi-based Indian operator Rajesh Kalra put behind bars. |
| 11/11/1980 | The Hindustan Times says the 'British have reverted to what they basically are & a small, little people with small, little minds inhabiting a small, little island in the Atlantic.' |
| 3/27/1977 | N. Sanjeeva Reddy elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha. |
| 9/29/2000 | Tata Ramachandra Prasad to be the next Cabinet Secretary. |
| 1/6/1959 | Kapildev Ramlal Nikhanj, cricketer (India's finest all-rounder 1978-94, Cup-1982), was born in Chandigarh. |
| 5/31/1987 | Daman and Diu to remain as union territories after Goa becomes the 25th state of India. |
|
![]()
|
|
|
