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Historical Event on 8/25/1996
194 pilgrims die of cold at the cave temples of Amarnath .
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/16/1911 | Pumping Station of Calcutta was commissioned at Tallah. |
| 5/21/1835 | Biharilal Chakravorty, Bengali poet, was born. |
| 2/2/1835 | Thomas Babington Macaulay westernises education in India. English is made official government and court language and as medium of instruction. |
| 4/23/1751 | Gilbert Aliat Minto, governor general of East India Company, was born. |
| 7/27/1993 | Rao government defeats the no-confidence motion by 265-251 votes. Seven of the JD (A) vote with government as JD (A) and AIADMK decide to vote for no-confidence motion. |
| 9/27/1989 | The second test launching of India's surface-to-surface missile, 'Prithvi', from Sri Harikota was successful. |
| 8/30/1751 | Sir Robert Clive exhibited a heroic feat when the British troops captured Arcot form Chanda Saheb. |
| 3/12/1913 | Yashvantrao Balvantrao Chavan, first Chief Minister of Maharashtra, was born. |
| 10/24/2000 | Delhi High Court admitted the appeal of former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao against the lower court judgement in the JMM MPs' bribery case. |
| 11/23/1937 | Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, eminent scientist, passed away due to heart attack. In 1901, he proved that ""plants and animal have similar touch sense"". He founded Bose Research Institute in Calcutta and authored world famous books ""Response in Living and Non-Living""(1902) and ""Nervous Merchanism of Pl |
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