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Historical Event on 5/25/1999

India blasts its way into the global satellite launch vehicle market with the PSLV-C2 deploying two foreign satellites besides the Indian remote sensing satellite, IRS-P4.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/9/2000The Centre appoints Yogendra Narain as the new defence secretary and K. Sibal as the secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs while effecting a major bureaucratic reshuffle.
1/2/1899Monks started living in Belur Math.
4/7/1934Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience in India.
10/24/1984First Metro Train (Underground Train) in India started between Esplanade and Bhowanipore in Calcutta city.
10/30/1966First meeting of the Shiv Sena at Shivaji Park.
3/22/1914M. L. Bhowmik, social reformer and politician, was born Kailashahar, Tripura.
5/9/1995Two new gas and oil reserves found off the Gujarat and Bombay coast.
5/5/1993Balak Brahmachari, [Marxist Godman], famous Indian guru, passed away at 73 yrs.
8/6/1991Ramakrishna Hegde disqualified as MLA.
5/27/1997Sri Lanka claims Independence Cup, winning the second match in the best-of-three finals in Calcutta.