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Historical Event on 1/25/1950

The post of the Governor General of India was abolished.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/1/1901Six language penel were started on the Rs. five dinomination. These notes were single sided and the back side could be used for accounting purposes. The six languages were Urdu, Bengali, Telugu, Kaithi, Kannada and Tamil. The paper used for printing was white hand made and moulded.
6/21/1941Chakravorty Rajgopalachari became the First Indian Governor General of India.
8/26/1852Bombay Association was established.
2/19/1855U. V. Swaminathan Iyyer, mahamahopadhyay Tamil author, was born.
3/25/1931Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi matyred in Hindu-Muslim riot at Kanpur. He was also the Editor of weekly 'Pratap'.
9/14/1919Nyalchand Shah, bowled 64-33-97-3 in the Test between India vs Pakistan, was born at Dhragandhara in Gujarat.
4/12/1801Ranjit Singh proclaimed himself Maharaja of Punjab.
8/18/1990President R Venkataraman presented the colours to the Officers Training Academy in recognition of their services to the Nation.
5/13/2000Lara Dutta (21), who said beauty pageants give women a platform to ''voice our choices and opinions'' is named Miss Universe 2000 in the Cyprus capital Nicosia.
7/25/1813First boat race started at Calcutta on the Hooghly river where seven sailing boats had competed.