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Historical Event on 12/25/1964
Indian Ocean hurricane kills 4,000 in Ceylon, 3,000 in Indian province of Madras.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/29/1757 | Mir Zafar was installed on the throne as the Nawab of Bengal, Bihar and Orrisa from Murshidabad. |
| 5/2/1953 | 40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers. |
| 5/22/1997 | At least 40 persons are killed and over 300 injured in an earthquake which hit Jabalpur city. |
| 12/31/1998 | Air Chief Marshal Anil Yashwant Tipnis, PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He is the 18th Air Chief Marshal. |
| 10/30/1887 | Sukumar Roy, famous Bengali children's litterateur, was born. |
| 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). |
| 7/1/1927 | Chandrashekhar, former Prime Minister of India, was born. |
| 11/19/1962 | Nehru asks more US aid as China drives into India in New Delhi. |
| 2/16/1955 | Maghnath Saha, famous scientist, passed away. |
| 6/3/1818 | Maratha wars between British & Maratha Confederacy in India ends. |
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