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Historical Event on 11/25/1999

Baba Amte, a Gandhian and noted social worker, is chosen for the Gandhi Peace Prize.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/17/1997Two workers belonging to Mamsapuram near Srivilliputtur ''burnt alive'' at neighbouring Edayankulam by its residents who took them hostage.
5/28/1965Fire and explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad, India kills 400.
4/15/1658Raja Jaswant Singh was defeated at Dharmat. He was sent by Shahjahan and Dara Shukoh to resist Aurangzeb's advance towards Agra.
1/10/1996All in all, it has been a long story of nearly nine decades, with the early shaky screen images turning into a multi-pronged and multi-winged empire of its own, that has yielded about 27,000 feature films and thousands of documented short films.
6/18/1991Congress emerges as the largest party in Lok Sabha polls though short of an absolute majority.
7/25/1982Dr. Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1913-1996) retired from the post of sixth President.
12/20/1978Riots in many Indian cities in protest against Indira Gandhi's imprisonment.
12/26/1917Prabhakar Machve, famous Hindi and Marathi litterateur, was born.
12/3/1971Indo-Pakistan war begins. On the same day National Emergency was declared by the President of India due to war between both the countries.
5/21/1835Biharilal Chakravorty, Bengali poet, was born.