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Historical Event on 6/25/1900
Louis Mountbatten, last British Voiceroy and first Governor General of independent India, was born at England.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/5/1977 | Chandra Shekar chosen President of the Janatha Party. |
| 12/4/1999 | Uman J. Shah is sworn in West Bengal Governor. |
| 1/1/1981 | Colaba District renamed as Raigad District. |
| 12/10/1979 | Mother Teresa wins Nobel Peace prize. |
| 4/15/1984 | Extremist Sikhs plunder 40 stations in Punjab, India. |
| 7/17/1997 | K.R. Narayanan,Vice President, wins in the Presidential election with a record margin to become the next head of state. |
| 7/6/1927 | Vyankatesh Dingambar Madgulkar, great Marathi story writer and novelist, was born. |
| 10/23/1970 | If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour |
| 4/10/1937 | Shridhar Vyanktesh Ketkar, creator of Maharashtra Gyankosh and Sociologist, passed away. |
| 5/17/1976 | 4 Indians successfully skied down from the slope of Trishul peak. |
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