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Historical Event on 7/25/1995
India reaps a record harvest of food grain of 189.77 million tonnes ('94, 95).
Other Historical Dates and Events |
3/25/1609 | Henry Hudson embarks on an exploration for Dutch East India Co. at Pulicat. |
2/13/1713 | Farrukh Siyar becomes Emperor of India after capturing Red Fort. |
8/15/1999 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister, says Agni-2 to be inducted in the defence arsenal. |
10/31/1962 | Krishna Menon, Home Minister, resign due to attack by China. |
6/1/1996 | H.D. Deve Gowda's 21-member Central cabinet sworn in. |
1/3/1836 | Munshi Newal Kishore, son of Jamuna Prasad Bhargava--a zamindar of Aligarh-- and a great erudite scholar, educationist, nationalist, social worker and a pioneer industrialist, was born. He was the founder of Navalkishore Press, Lucknow (1858), which published 2612 books that elaborated Hindi literature. He was the Publisher of Awadhi Newspaper in Asia. |
9/22/1999 | India asks Pakistan to prevent the reported attempt by the JKLF to cross the Line of Control (LOC) on October 4. |
7/1/1961 | Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian women astronaut (STS 87), was born in Karnal. |
3/5/1922 | Ebrahim Suleman Maka, Indian cricket wicket-keeper (2 Tests vs West Indies1952), was born at Daman. |
1/18/1997 | Pulse Polio Immunisation Programme Phase II begins. |
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