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Historical Event on 5/25/1999
India blasts its way into the global satellite launch vehicle market with the PSLV-C2 deploying two foreign satellites besides the Indian remote sensing satellite, IRS-P4.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/30/1888 | Hailsones kill 246 in Moradabad. |
| 4/27/1918 | Gandhiji attends Viceroy's War Conference at Delhi and addresses it in Hindustani; subsequently tours Kaira District to raise recruits for army. |
| 2/12/1871 | Charles Freer Andrews, great social worker, humanitarian, leader and a true friend of India, was born in New-Castle-on-Tyne in U.K. |
| 3/1/1908 | A.E.T. Barrow, educationist, was born. |
| 3/18/1924 | Madhusudhan Ramachandra Rege, cricketer (15 runs in only Test India v WI 1948-49), was born in Panvel, Maharashtra. |
| 8/25/1969 | Vivek Upendra Krishna Razdan, cricket pace bowler (Indian Test 1989-90), was born in Delhi. |
| 8/9/1969 | Ochterlony Memorial in Calcutta was renamed as 'Shahid Minar'. |
| 9/20/1857 | British troops conquered Delhi from the Mutineers. |
| 1/20/1996 | The Indian Army conducted United Nation Peacekeeping Keeping Operations in New Delhi from 20 to 26 Jan 1996, wherein delegates from UN HQ and 17 foreign countries of the Asia-Pacific region participated. The Under Secretary General, Mr Kofi Annan, was the chief guest. |
| 6/15/1991 | General Election (10th) of India ends. In this election Indian National Congress won. |
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