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Historical Event on 5/25/1941

5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/29/1984Troops were sent to Hyderabad to quell communal riots.
10/3/1977Indira Gandhi arrested on charges of official corruption in New Delhi.
7/17/1987V. P. Singh announces resignation from Congress; R. Venkataraman elected President of India.
9/1/1947Mahatma Gandhi undertakes a fast for unity among Hindus and Muslims. He breaks the fast after 73 hours when peace is restored.
11/25/1948National Cadet Corps was first established.
10/31/1984Indira Gandhi, India's four-time prime minister, was gunned down by two members of her personal security guard as she walked from her home to her office in New Delhi. She died after four hours of emergency surgery. The only daughter of former Prime Minister Nehru was 66. Both of her attackers were identified as members of the Sikh religion. One was shot dead. The other was captured. Sikh extremists had threatened to kill Ms. Gandhi since she ordered the raid on their shrine in Amritsar. She had told an interviewer that she was not intimidated by the threats. 'I am not afraid,' she said. 'I am frequently attacked.'
11/2/1999The Delhi HC dismisses a plea against Sonia Gandhi seeking deletion of her name from the register of Indian citizenship.
3/21/1997Jockey Vasant Shinde retires.
8/28/1928Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon, noted physicist and scientific advisor to the Prime Minister, was born at Mangalore in Karnataka.
9/24/1726King George empowered the company to establish Municipal Corporation and Mayor s Courts in Bombay and Calcutta.