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Historical Event on 12/25/1979

Opening day of Fourth Test Cricket, India 8-112 v Pakistan at Kanpur.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/7/1985Adoor Gopalakrishnan adjudged Best Director (Mukhamukham) in national film awards.
10/29/1996Shankarsinh Waghela, Gujarat CM, wins confidence vote.
9/6/1674Faced with a critical situation, De la Haye had to capitulate and surrender St Thome to the Dutch who allowed the Sultan of Golconda to re-occupy it.
8/2/1858British parliament passed the act to handover the administration of India to British Government from East India Company. After the occasion, the Supreme British ruler in India was called as 'Viceroy'.
8/25/199710,000 people residing in low lying areas in Gujarat shifted to safer places following incessant rains for two days. Death toll mounts to 265.
5/7/1994Sunit Khatau, famous industrialist and textile magnet in Mumbai and owner of Khatau Group, was murdered. He was 55.
10/23/1934Gandhi resigns as leader of the All India Congress.
11/12/1958Satyajit Ray gets the award for best direction at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
1/30/1999Pandit Ravi Shankar, sitar maestro, is chosen for Bharat Ratna.
2/3/1997Major fire reduces Calcutta Book Fair to ashes.