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Historical Event on 7/25/1987

Ramaswamy Venkataraman became the eighth President of India. He held this office till July 25, 1992.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/12/1990Government of India announces a 15\% cut in oil consumption, exempting LPG and kerosene.
2/1/1990Governors named for 14 states.
10/20/1962The first IAFunit No. 2 squadron re-equipped with the Gnat at Ambalan and No.9 squadron soon followed suit.
1/19/1966Indira Gandhi elected leader of the Congress party to succeed the late Lal Bahadur Shastri as the third Prime Minister of India. She pledged to follow path of Non-Alignment in worlds affairs.
12/3/1971During the ensuing melee, three of the Sabres were shot down while all Gnats returning to base were unscathed. The first blood of a new Indo-Pakistan air war had been drawn. Other encounters were to follow over the next 10 days within both Indian and Pakistani airspace, before a full-scale war began.
6/29/1757Mir Zafar was installed on the throne as the Nawab of Bengal, Bihar and Orrisa from Murshidabad.
12/11/1994H.D. Deve Gowda, Janata Dal leader, assumes office as CM of Karnataka.
3/25/1933Vasantrao Gowarikar, space scientist, was born.
9/29/1907Labour MP James Keir Hardie accuses UK of running India 'like the Czar runs Russia'
7/22/1956Quake shatters town of Anjar; claiming 117 lives, 800 people were missing.