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Historical Event on 8/25/1965

Indian troops cross the Kashmir ceasefire line pursuing Pakistani infiltrators.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/6/1976Baliram Bhagat elected Lok Sabha Speaker.
1/29/1997Supreme Court rules that water is a 'mineral'.
1/29/1953Indian National Academy of Dance, Drama and Music inaugurated.
5/20/1850Vishnushastri Chiplunkar, father of modern story writing in Marathi, was born.
8/5/1907Kashi Nath Pandey, politician and Trade Unionist, was born in Fursatpur Village.
6/28/1857Nana Sahib proclaimed himself as the Peshwa and called for the total extermination of the British power of India at Bithoor.
12/21/2000Women's Bill put off again.
3/17/1988First operational Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1A) launched by a Russian Vostok. IRS system under National Natural Resources Management System (NNRMS) coordinated at national level by the Planning Committee of NNRMS (PC-NNRMS) and the data from IRS satellites is processed by the National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad. SI, a US Company, also receives and markets IRS data worldwide under a commercial contract with Antrix Corporation of the Department of Space.
5/25/1996DMK-led coalition ministry headed by R.V. Janakiraman sworn in Pondicherry.
3/30/1999Services regained team title in the national boxing championship in Visakhapatnam.