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Historical Event on 3/25/1971
Aashish Rakesh Kapoor, cricketer (Indian off-spin batsman 1994- ), was born in Madras.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/10/1930 | Police raid the headquarters of the Indian National Congress, Bombay. |
| 7/4/1994 | Labhuben Mehta, famous Gujrathi author, died. |
| 2/26/1996 | Sahib Singh Verma sworn in as Delhi's second CM. |
| 2/8/1912 | Girishchandra Ghosh, famous Bengali actor and dramatist, passed away. |
| 3/28/1914 | Komagata Maru sailed from Hong Kong to Vancouver with 351 Sikhs and 21 Punjabi Muslim youths under the captaincy of Sardar Gurjeet Singh as a part of 'Ghadar' Movement. |
| 11/18/1727 | Maharaja Jai Singh-II of Amber laid the stone of Jaipur City. Vidyadhar Chakravarty of Bengal was the architect of the first planned city in India. |
| 9/18/1924 | Mahatma Gandhi was to fast for 21 days in despair of the recent riots between Muslims and Hindus. It was an expression of his 'unbearable hopelessnes'. ""Nothing I say or write,"" he said, ""can bring the two communities together."" Even as he spoke there were reports of further riots at Kohat, in which 20 Hindus and 11 Muslims were killed. Reservations, Gandhi speaking in Allahabad said, reserved the right to drink water with or without salt. ""It is both a penance and a prayer. As it is penance I need not have taken the public into my confidence but I publish it as, let me hope, an effective prayer to Hindus and Muslims, not to commit suicide"". |
| 12/7/1856 | First Hindu widow married officially. |
| 8/2/1935 | The British pass Govt. of India Act, separating Burma, Aden from India. |
| 4/16/1966 | Nandlal Bose, who established modern painting in Bengal, passed away. |
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