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Historical Event on 6/25/1900

Louis Mountbatten, last British Voiceroy and first Governor General of independent India, was born at England.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/11/1971The elite para-commandos and parachute battalions -India's 'Red Devils', as they are affectionately called, have an unsurpassed ethos and elan of their own. 2 Para Battalion executed a superb airborne assault operation at Tangail in East Pakistan, which was the first of its kind in the subcontinent.
9/12/1686Aurangzeb ended Adilshah's kingdom. The garrison lost heart and surrendered Sikandar who was sent to the state prison at Daulatabad. Bijapur was invested and the city opened its gates to the Mughals. Bijapur as an independent kingdom ceased to exist.
12/24/1762Gopalrao defeated in the battle of Jamkhindi.
10/19/1875The first section from Hathras Road to Mathura Cantonment was opened to traffic.
8/16/1958Pather Panchali' won the top five awards, including feature length motion picture, and got a honorary mention at the Vancouver International Film Festival.
3/16/1977Sixth General Election of India begins.
3/20/2000Unidentified militants gun down 35 Sikhs in the south Kashmir village of Chatti Singhpora in one of the worst incidents of violence in the State.
10/24/1890Shishirkumar Mitra, Physics expert, was born in Calcutta.
1/14/1969Madras State renamed Tamil Nadu.
4/15/1950Acharya Vinoba Bhave requested to the villagers of Panchampalli Telangana, Andhra Pradesh to give 80 acres of land, and with this he had started his 'Bhudan Andolan'.