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Historical Event on 3/25/1963
Yagyawalk Bharadwaj, famous botany scientist, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/18/1775 | Warren Hastings expressed doubt of hanging Nandkumar. |
| 6/17/1991 | Congress and its allies secure absolute majority in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Haryana Assemblies. |
| 8/17/1934 | Murasoli Shanmuga Sundram Maran was born in Thirukkuvalai village in Thiruvarur (Tamil Nadu). |
| 6/29/1893 | Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, physics, mathematics expert and founder of Indian Statistical Institute, was born at Calcutta. |
| 2/2/1977 | Jagjivan Ram, Cabinet member of 30 years, resigns to protest emergency rule causing minor split in Congress party. |
| 12/24/1932 | The third and last Round Table conference on India ends. It was was held in London. |
| 4/2/1970 | Privy purses and special privileges of former Indian rulers abolished. |
| 9/4/1967 | 6.5 earthquake at Koyna Dam in Maharashtra kills 200 people. |
| 4/15/1794 | Moropant Paradkar, great poet of Marathi in Peshwa kingdom, passed away. |
| 2/18/1993 | Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"". |
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