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Historical Event on 12/25/1997

India-Sri Lanka one-day cricket match at Indore abandoned after three overs owing to a bad state of the pitch, which was a rare occurance.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/22/1981India's first experimental geo-stationary communication satellite 'Apple' started working which was launched on June 19, 1981.
9/27/1958Mihir Sen becomes the first Indian to cross the English Channel from Dover to Calais.
10/15/1888Gopal Ganesh Agarkar started daily newspaper 'Sudharak'.
4/12/1976India set 403 to win against the West Indies.
9/25/1990Prafull Chandra Sen, former Chief Minister of West Bengal and Gandhian leader, died in Calcutta. He was 94 years old.
5/20/1996Janaki Ramachandran, chief minister of Tamil Nadu (1988), passed away.
6/10/1946Gandhiji refused to enthuse over allied victory as it was not a ""victory of truth over false-hood"".
10/16/1906Shankar Damodar Chitale, famous author and teacher, was born in Secundarabad.
10/20/1997All India Hindu Conference begins at Hardwar.
7/24/1997Country's highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna conferred on former interim Prime Minister Gulzarilal Nanda and posthumously on freedom-fighter Aruna Asaf Ali.