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Historical Event on 2/25/1995
Bomb attack on a train in Assam; 27 soldiers killed.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/1/1988 | The Officers Training School (OTS) was re-christened as Officers Training Academy. Besides training Indian nationals, 74 cadets from Sri Lanka have also been trained at the OTA. |
| 10/25/1999 | Fixed term for Lok Sabha, Assemblies is under study, said President K R Narayanan in his address to a joint session of Parliament. |
| 10/15/1915 | Dr. I. Gopalkrishnan, Cricket Test Umpire for 7 tests from 1960-67, was born in Tamil Nadu. |
| 11/16/1991 | Madhukar Karekar, famous journalist, died |
| 12/6/1931 | Bengal Congress to boycott British goods. |
| 12/1/1982 | Pakistan beats India to win hockey gold in the Asian Games. |
| 4/8/1925 | Kumar Gandharva (Shivputra Siddharamaiya Komkali), famous music director and singer, was born. |
| 4/23/1929 | The Fate of the Outlaw', a 7-reel film produced by Majestic Film Co. was prohibited by the Board of Censors, Bombay, on April 23 on the grounds that the film glorifieds crime. |
| 4/30/1843 | Ramchandra Bhikaji Gunjikar, marathi novelist and editor, was born. |
| 10/23/1970 | If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour |
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