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Historical Event on 1/25/1954

Manabendranath Roy, famous leader of socialist revolution, passed away at Dehradun.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/21/1971Gavaskar scores the first of his 34 Test tons, 116 at Georgetown.
4/5/1938Anil Rakeshi, great poet, Hindi writer and critic, was born at Nahan (H.P.).
9/1/1913Snehangshu Kanta Acharya, politician, social reformer, lawyer and athelete, was born.
10/31/1997Rushmi Chakravarthy makes it a double in the National hardcourt tennis in Mumbai.
2/2/1915Khushvant Singh, famous journalist, was born.
5/15/1989NAL's 0.6 m transonic wind tunnel is commissioned. Total project cost is about Rs 20 million.
8/13/1995Kashmiri separatists behead a kidnapped Norwegian tourist and threatened to kill other hostages unless India freed 15 militants at Srinagar.
1/16/1942Jawaharlal Nehru succeeds Gandhi as head of Indian National Congress.
4/22/1994Chabbildas Mehta sworn in as Gujarat CM.
11/1/1991J.N. Dixit appointed the next Foreign Secretary.