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Historical Event on 5/25/1899
Nazrul Islam, revolutionary and Bengali poet, was born in Churulia village of Burdwan district.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/12/1872 | Balkrishna Shivram Munje, freedom fighting leader and president of Hindu Mahasabha, was born. |
| 5/12/1998 | Yeltsin feels let down by the Indian nuclear tests but says that Indo-Russian ties will not be hit. |
| 5/12/1998 | Admiral Dom Vasco-da-Gama (c.1469-1524)-I, Portuguese navigator, arrived in India. He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to Calicut, Kerala with three vessels and was the first Westerner to sail to India from Europe. |
| 11/11/1973 | India's first International Philatelic Exihibition started in New Delhi. |
| 12/20/1942 | Gangu Bai, freedom fighter from Kolhapur, died at Hinlang Jail because of police beating. |
| 7/18/1992 | Kanandevi, famous Bengali actress, passed away. |
| 11/7/1971 | India admits forces entered Bangladesh to silence artillery. |
| 10/13/1679 | More than 20,000 lives were claimed near Massurla Pattanam city, costal area of South India, in a severe storm. |
| 3/2/1982 | Indira Gandhi opened Mahatma Gandhi Road Bridge at Patna. |
| 8/15/2000 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister, says in his Independence Day address, ""Borders cannot be redrawn either in the name of religion or on the strength of the sword"". |
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