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Historical Event on 6/25/2000
India lifts the Asia Cup sub-junior hockey championship in Kuala Lumpur.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/26/1820 | Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (Banerji), great Indian educationist, social reformer, litterateur, father of Bengali prose and who gave the Bengalees their first Primer in 1855, was born in the village of Birsingha in Midnapore district of Bengal. |
| 1/27/1996 | 'Prithvi', surface-to-surface missile, test-fired successfully. |
| 12/27/1797 | Mirza Ghalib, great urdu poet and writer, was born at Agra. |
| 12/28/1984 | Eighth General Election of India ends. Indian National Congress party wins with thumping majority. |
| 12/11/1992 | UP acquistion of land in Ayodhya quashed by Allahabad High Court. |
| 12/22/1999 | CPI (M) is against India signing the CTBT. |
| 3/30/1945 | Dr. J. J. Rawal, joint director of Nehru Planetarium of Mumbai, was born. |
| 3/18/1922 | Mohandas K. Gandhi ""Mahatma,"" the great spirit, sentenced by British authorities to six years in prison for sedition at Sabarmati. Gandhi was sentenced just eight days after he was arrested. The British acted hastily after government officials in London and India were criticized for not arresting him sooner. In London, the Secretary of State for India was forced to resign because of the controversy over Gandhi. In India, the arrests of Gandhi and other Indian nationalists had only increased sympathy for their cause. |
| 9/26/1946 | Gandhiji was interviewed with Wavell. |
| 6/17/1976 | Montreal Olympics opens. |
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