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Historical Event on 1/25/1989
Congress-I ministry headed by S. C. Jamir assumes office in Nagaland.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/3/1986 | Pope John Paul II meets Mother Teresa at Calcutta. |
| 7/21/2000 | A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, announces a special fund for population projects with the Planning Commission providing seed money of Rs. 100 crores. He was addressing the maiden meeting of the National Population Commission. |
| 9/10/1923 | Sukumar Roy, famous Bengali child litterateur, passed away. |
| 3/20/1920 | Usha Mehta, freedom fighter, was born at Satara. Her name is closely attached with freedom movement via Bombay Radio, as she and Babubhai Prasad and Vitthalbhai Zaveri founded this Radio and started motivating people of India with their telecasts. |
| 2/17/1976 | Urban Ceilings Act comes into force. |
| 9/29/1993 | National Human Rights Commission set up. |
| 2/7/1931 | Shila Kaul, the chief minister of New Delhi, was born. |
| 2/20/1997 | RBI relaxes capital adequacy norms for commercial banks. |
| 10/16/1905 | Bengal was partitioned by Lord Curzon on the pretext of it being too big to administer. Instead of dividing it on the basis of non-Bengali areas, the division was on the basis of Hindus and Muslims. Britishers thought that would succeed in increasing Hindu - Muslim tensions. The tremor of partition was felt throughout India and was regarded as an insult and challenge to Indian Nationalism. A movement was launched by the moderates. New method of protests 'Swadeshi and Swaraj' became the slogan of the common man and the whole of India was drawn into the national movement. |
| 12/4/1924 | Gateway of India was inagurated by Lord Riding. |
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