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Historical Event on 1/25/1980

Awards regarding Public Honour were re-started by Goverment of India; Mother Teresa was honoured by Bharat Ratna, Padma Vibhushan, etc.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/2/1992President J.B.Patnaik, former Orissa CM and PCC (I), arrested on corruption charges.
10/16/1968Hargovind Khorana, Indian scientist, was awarded 1968 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology on man-made synthetic gene.
2/10/1986Pope John Paul II ends visit to India.
6/23/1990Harindranath Chatopadhyay, famous poet, actor and former member of Parliament, passed away.
8/29/1923Hiralal Ghasulal Gaekwad, cricket all-rounder who played Test for India in 1952-53, was born in Nagpur.
4/27/1918Gandhiji attends Viceroy's War Conference at Delhi and addresses it in Hindustani; subsequently tours Kaira District to raise recruits for army.
2/2/1982Geet Sethi becomes the youngest Indian to win the National Billiards' crown at Madras.
1/11/1995Kumari Anandan replaces Vazhapadi K. Ramamurthy as TNCC (I) chief.
3/15/1908Police shoot four people in rioting.
9/5/1659Queen Saibai, wife of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, died.