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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.

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5/27/1957Copyright Act was passed.
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9/12/1912T. A. Ramachandran, cricket Test Umpire of one test during 1948-49, was born in Tamil Nadu.
7/1/1909Madanlal Dhingra, revolutionary, assassinated Sir William Curzon Wyllie, a prominent Anglo-Indian, at the Imperial Institute in London.
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11/14/1957Children's Day.