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Historical Event on 8/25/1999
Former Indian Davis Cup captain Narendra Nath died in Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/1/1976 | Indira Gandhi asks for sweeping new powers at New Delhi. |
| 3/27/1997 | South African President Nelson Mandela arrives in New Delhi on official visit. |
| 9/18/2000 | President K. R. Narayanan presents the Dada Saheb Phalke award for the year 1999 to film maker Hrishikesh Mukherjee. |
| 9/7/1996 | First phase of J & K Assembly elections. |
| 3/25/1971 | Aashish Rakesh Kapoor, cricketer (Indian off-spin batsman 1994- ), was born in Madras. |
| 1/15/1947 | Pritish Nandi, famous journalist, was born. Abul Kalam Azad became Minister of Education in the Government of India. |
| 6/24/1986 | Government announced that unmarried mothers under its employment would also get maternity leave. |
| 11/28/1956 | Chou En- lai, Chinese Prime Minister, came to India. |
| 5/18/1946 | Gandhiji discusses Plan with Cabinet Mission. |
| 5/2/1953 | 40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers. |
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