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Historical Event on 2/25/1884
Ravishankar Maharaj, freedom fighter and national leader of the country, was born at Radhu village of Kaira District.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
3/10/1945 | Madhavrao Scindia, prince of Gwalior and Congress leader, was born. |
6/21/1998 | India and Russia sign a $2.5-billion deal to set up a nuclear power station at Koodankulam in Tamil Nadu. |
1/9/1922 | Har Gobind Khurana, scientist of Biology, was born in India. He did his M.Sc from University of Punjab and, for higher education went to University of Liverpool. In 1959, he produced a chemical called ""Coenzymea"", which is essential for certain processes in the human body. He was awarded Nobel Prize for medicine in 1968 along with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Halley. |
8/10/1991 | Delhi airport police foils an attempt by a Saudi national to smuggle out a minor girl named Ameena. |
3/16/1997 | The first batch of three Russian-made Sukhoi-30 combat aircraft reaches India. |
4/20/1997 | Sheri Bamboat and Hamshad Bamboat win National sea-bird sailing title. |
9/11/1895 | Vinoba Bhave (real name Vinayak Narhari Bhave), great Gandhian Acharya, was born at Ganoda village of Maharashtra. |
7/31/1993 | Zafar Saifullah was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-07-1994. |
12/25/1879 | Sadhu T.L. Vaswani (1879-1966), altruistic Sindhi poet and servant of God, who found several Hindu missions in India and seven Mira Educational Institutions in his lifetime, was born. |
4/2/1954 | Nehru calls for a halt to the build up of nuclear weapons. |
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