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Historical Event on 1/25/1994
Mine fire at Asansol India, kills 55.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/1/1990 | JD Government in Gujarat, headed by Chimanbhai Patel, defeats no-confidence motion with Congress (I) support. |
| 5/12/1949 | S Vijaya Laxmi Pandit, first woman foreign ambassador, was received in US. |
| 11/16/1877 | Ardaseer Cursetjee Wadia, professor, pioneer and innovator, died. He was the first Indian who was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, London. He introduced lighting by gas and was the first to build ""INDUS"", a steam-ship in India in 1833. He also introduced sewing machine, photography and electro-plat |
| 11/13/1935 | Chandra Prakash Gupta, great educationist, was born at Gaini in UP. |
| 1/9/1994 | Indian diplomats and staff members evacuated from war-ravaged Kabul. |
| 11/30/1995 | G. Umapati, filmmaker, died. |
| 11/30/1995 | Sher Shah Sur died. He was fatally wounded in an explosion on Kalanjara fort while preparing for an attack. He introduced the new silver rupee-coin ""Rupiya"" based on ratio of 40 copper coin pieces (paisa) per rupee and built several roads including the longest road of India known as Grand Trunk Road (now Natioinal Highway-2). |
| 9/1/1999 | The Congress(I) President, Ms. Sonia Gandhi, launches a broadside against the Vajpayee Government on handling of Kargil issue. |
| 3/11/1997 | Chennai police seize a large quantity of powerful explosives and arrest two Muslim fundamentalists. |
| 2/2/1982 | Mohanlal Purushottamdas Sukhadia, Chief Minister of Rajasthan, freedom fighter, passed away. He was the Chief Minister of Rajasthan from 1954-1971. He introduced Panchayati Raj in Rajasthan and worked for its industrialisation also. |
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