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Historical Event on 3/25/1997
Justice Jagdish Saran Verma sworn in Chief Justice of India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/22/1992 | India launches its 'Agni' rocket. |
| 6/10/1890 | Sunday introduced as a weekly holiday. |
| 12/7/1979 | Ramandeep Singh Gill, Soccer(Football) player, was born in Oslo, Norway. |
| 12/17/1914 | Syed Mushtaq Ali Takub Khan, cricketer, prolific Indian batsman of 30's & 40's, was born in Indore. |
| 1/18/1950 | India is declared a secular republic. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (1947-1964) is determined to abolish casteism and industrialize the nation. Constitution makes Hindi official national language, English to continue for 15 years, 14 major state languages are recognized. India also moved a motion for no war treaty between India and Pakistan to improve the relations with neighboring countries. |
| 8/3/1930 | Jai Prakash, educationist, was born at Jaunpur. |
| 10/26/1995 | India decides to go ahead with Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme in the wake of US stand to supply $370 million arms package to Pakistan. |
| 2/21/1991 | Nutan, famous film actress, died at the age of 56 years. |
| 10/5/1993 | Geet Sethi retained World Billiards title by beating Mike Russel. |
| 4/11/1999 | The DRDO has successfully flight tested AGNI-11 with a range of 2000 km, using solid propellant rocket motors in both stages and rail mobile launcher system from its new launch complex in the Orissa Coast. With this launch the country has reached the point of operationalisation of AGNI-11 as a weapon system. (1-1-2000). |
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