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Historical Event on 12/25/1979
Opening day of Fourth Test Cricket, India 8-112 v Pakistan at Kanpur.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/27/1997 | Sri Lanka claims Independence Cup, winning the second match in the best-of-three finals in Calcutta. |
| 3/1/1916 | Habib Rahman, great Architect, was born at Calcutta. |
| 9/18/1992 | Andhra government's order of setting up 12 private medical colleges quashed by a full bench of the High Court. |
| 7/20/1905 | First Partition of Bengal, which was proposed by Lord Curzon, was accepted by British Government's Minister of India. |
| 11/2/1871 | Kashinath Raghunath Mitra, famous editor of monthly magzine 'Manoranjan', was born. |
| 4/13/1963 | Babu Gulab Rai, famous hindi critic, passed away. |
| 12/5/1872 | Bhai Vir Singh, great poet, social worker, writer, educationist, musician, humanitarian and Padma Bhushan awardee, was born at Amritsar. |
| 4/4/1951 | West Germany establishes full diplomatic relations with India. |
| 9/24/1947 | Pakistani raiders invade Kashmir. |
| 1/12/1948 | Gandhiji decides to fast for communal peace in Delhi for communal riots which broke between Hindus and Muslims at Calcutta. Mountbatten fails to dissuade Gandhiji. |
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