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Historical Event on 2/25/1910
Dalai Lama, Tibeten monk, flees from Chinese troops and takes refuge in India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/11/1965 | The first of two cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 people in the country. |
| 7/22/1993 | R.K. Khandekar, PM's aide, denies Harshad Mehta's charges. |
| 5/22/1963 | Rohini, Glider, became the first to successfully fly at Kanpur. |
| 3/21/2000 | The 10,000 bond scheme for short-term visitors to the UK will not be applied to India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, said British Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Keith Vaz. |
| 6/8/1968 | Madhuri Mani Iyyer, famous singer of Karnatak Gharana, passed away. |
| 8/7/1906 | First Tricoloured National Flag consisting of Green, Yellow and Red, with eight Lotuses on the top, second strip carrying ""Vande Matara"" in Devnagri and the third strip having Sun and Cresent Moon, was hoisted at Green Park in Calcutta by Surendranath Banerjee. |
| 1/29/1948 | Angry refugees ask Gandhiji to retire to the Himalayas. |
| 9/23/1862 | Sriniwas Shastri, great patriot and veteran politician, was born. |
| 10/1/1997 | Ordinance promulgated to ban single digit or instant lotteries. |
| 9/8/1993 | Mandal Commission recommendation of 27\% job reservation for the backward classes brought into effect; 'Creamy' layer excluded. |
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