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Historical Event on 7/25/1997

Laloo Yadav resigns as Bihar Chief Minister after CBI-designated court issues an arrest warrant against him in fodder scam case. His wife, Rabri Devi, is sworn in as his successor. She becomes first woman Chief Minister of the State.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/2/1938Chandrakumar Agarwala, assamia poet, passed away.
4/15/1992Union Carbide decides to sell its holdings in India to raise upto $ 17 million for a hospital in Bhopal.
7/17/1947Ramdas Coastal Steamer sank off Bombay claiming 550 lives.
1/11/1613Emperor Jahangir in a proclamation permitted East India Company to establish factories in Surat. And the first British factory was established under Thomas Aldworth.
1/5/1990Mohammad Azharuddin was made captain of Indian cricket team.
12/17/1987Bhopal court orders the Union Carbide to pay Rs. 350 crore as interim relief to 1984 gas victims.
6/12/2000The Government appointed S. K. Mahajan of Delhi High Court as the chairman of the one-man tribunal to adjudicate whether or not there was sufficient cause for declaring LTTE as unlawful.
12/23/1998Jayaprakash Narayan posthumously awarded Bharat Ratna, the country's biggest honour.
5/1/1947Congress Working Committee accepts Partition in principle.
1/20/2000J&K accepts the report of the State Autonomy committee tabled in the Assembly last year.