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Historical Event on 10/25/1990

Captain Sangma, first Chief Minister of Meghalaya, died.

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1/26/1988A Post Office was established at Dakshin Gangotri under the Goa Postal Division. (11-7-89).
8/30/1983Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1B) launched. This was also a multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite, which served for more than its design life of seven years. It was launched by a US Space Shuttle.
2/22/1905Purushotamsing Bajaj, industrialist and social worker, was born at Shikarpur (Sind).
4/11/1999A.K.A. Abdul Samad (72), general secretary of IUML and State unit president, died in Chennai.
1/17/1941Subhashchandra Bose went underground at Calcutta. He appeared in Moscow after sone days.
8/20/1997Lata Mangeshkar receives the Fifth Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award from the President.
6/28/1975Netherlands gives independence to Dutch Guyana, which becomes Suriname; one third of Hindus (descendants of Indian plantation workers) emigrate to Netherlands for better social and economic conditions.
5/15/1873The proposal to dissolve East India Company was passed in England.
9/4/19676.5 earthquake at Koyna Dam in Maharashtra kills 200 people.
6/14/1990Veerendra Verma sworn in as the new Governor of Punjab and Administrator of Chandigarh.