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Historical Event on 6/25/2000
India lifts the Asia Cup sub-junior hockey championship in Kuala Lumpur.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/29/1997 | Olympic Hockey captain Pargat Singh announces retirement. |
| 11/25/1998 | Prof. K. S. Hegde (75), former Vice-Chancellor of Mysore University and educationist, dies in New Delhi. He was selected by the Government of India for overseas scholarship for post graduate studies and higher technical training abroad during the pre-independence era. |
| 3/27/1997 | South African President Nelson Mandela arrives in New Delhi on official visit. |
| 7/15/1783 | Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, great Indian Merchant, Industrialist and philanthrophist, was born in Bombay. He aided famine relief, financed public works like wells, roads, causeways and bridges; founded dispensaries and hospitals; established educational institutions and scholarship funds; etc. He was receipent of a Knighthood and many medals. |
| 11/3/1908 | Shreyansprasad Jain, famous industrialist, was born. |
| 1/30/1996 | Supreme Court directs CBI and other govt. agencies to speed up the Jain hawala probe. |
| 12/25/1991 | Ajit Singh expelled from the JD. |
| 6/1/1996 | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, former President of India, passed away. |
| 7/20/1911 | Mohammed Baqa Jilani Khan, Indian cricket fast bowler (Test 1936), was born in Jullandur. |
| 11/19/1838 | Keshab Chandra Sen (1838-84), nationalist leader of Bengal, was born in Calcutta. He was one of the first Indians to sow the seeds of secularism in the country. He joined the Brahmo Samaj in 1857 but seperated from it in 1866 and founded Brahma Samaj of India, a radical offshoot of the Adi Brahmo Samaj. |
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