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Historical Event on 8/25/1999
Former Indian Davis Cup captain Narendra Nath died in Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/4/1999 | A batch of 1,690 Indian soldiers leave for Sierra Leone to join the U.N. Mission to implement the peace accord. |
| 9/10/1920 | Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao was born at Hadagali in Karnataka. In 1945 he put forward the ""theory of estimation"" in statistics. His formulae and therorems, for instance the ""Cramer-Rao inequality"", ""The Fisher-Rao theorem"" and ""Rao-Black Wellistaion"" are now part of any standard textbook of statistics. For his significant contributions, Rao received the S. S. Bhatnagar Award, the Meghnad Saha Medal and the Guy medal. |
| 5/25/1924 | Ashutosh Mukerjee, famous educationalist, passed away in Dumraon at Bihar . |
| 6/23/1987 | D. Chakraborty was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 02-07-1991. |
| 1/26/1950 | Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1884-1963) became the first President of India. He remained President from Jan. 26,1950 to May 13, 1962. |
| 4/30/1870 | Dadasaheb Phalke alias Dhundiraj Gobind Phalke was born at Trymbakeshwar near Nasik, Maharashtra. He is remembered as the 'Father of Indian Cinema'. He produced India's first feature Film, 'Raja Harishchandra' and founded Phalke & Co. at Bombay. He was a director, producer, writer, editor & laboratorian, portrait photographer and also a scene-painter. |
| 1/12/1993 | Ramakanth Rath, well-known Oriya poet, gets the Saraswathi Samman of Rs.3 lakh. |
| 12/22/1977 | Nalinibala Devi, Assamese poet, passed died. |
| 3/30/1699 | Guru Govind Singh the 10th Guru of Sikh's established 'Khalsa Panth'. |
| 7/25/2000 | Two Indians Aruna Roy from Rajasthan and Jockin Arputham, founder of the Indian National Slum Dwellers' Association, chosen for the Ramon Magsaysay award for public service. |
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