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Historical Event on 11/25/1987
India all out for 75 vs West Indies at Delhi. Patterson took 5-24.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/3/1978 | Origin of Saka Era (India). |
| 6/17/1862 | Lord Charles Jhon Canning, Governor General and Viceroy of India (1856-1862), died. |
| 10/31/1999 | The Ram Janmabhoomi Trust president ends fast in support of his eight-point demands including improvement of 'puja' and 'darshan' arrangements of 'Ram Lala' at the temple. |
| 11/24/1992 | Milan Kumar Banerjee appointed Attorney General. |
| 10/12/1921 | Jayant Shridhar Tilak, great journalist, was born at Poona. |
| 5/22/1993 | Congress (I) suffers reverses in the by-elections. |
| 5/17/1999 | Sonia Gandhi resigns as Congress president but the CWC(I) rejects it. |
| 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. |
| 9/6/1995 | Meenatai Thackrey, social worker and Matoshree of Shivsainik's, passed away. |
| 9/11/1911 | Amarnath Lala, right-hand Indian all-rounder of 30s and 40s, was born at Lahore in Pakistan. He was awarded with Padma Bhushan in 1991. |
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