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Historical Event on 5/25/1990

Jag Mohan, J&K Governor, resigns. Girish Chandra Saxena appointed new Governor.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/21/1857Bahadurshah Jafar - II surrendered against the British troops.
7/28/1997Calling and holding of bandhs by political parties and other associations or organisations declared 'Illegal and unconstitutional' by a Full Bench of the Kerala High Court.
3/20/1904Charles Freer Andrews came to India as a Christian Missionary and joined the staff of St. Stephen's College in Delhi.
12/11/19676.5 earthquake in West India, 170 killed.
7/1/1984Ravishankar Maharaj, freedom fighter and national leader of the country, died at the age of 101.
5/2/1953Declaration by the PM that India was opposed to joining any power-block in the event of another war.
3/27/1993Hari Singh from Haryana hijacks an IA plane, but surrender after 8 hours.
3/27/1993Affonso de Albuquerque, who is regarded as the real founder of Portuguese power in India, died at the age of 73 years.
3/1/1978Justice Y. Y. Chandrachud is sworn in as the Chief Justice of India.
10/27/1947Indian Governments accepts King of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Harisingh's accession merging Jammu and Kashmir in India and sends its troops. Accession of Jammu and Kashmir was then officially announced. No. 12 Sqn was to initiate the remarkable feat of air-lifting the first Sikhs from Palam onto the rough and dusty Srinagar airstrip without planning or reconnaissance as the initial Indian response to the sizeable insurgent forces that were pouring across the border into Jammu and Kashmir.