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Historical Event on 8/25/1948

Jana Gana Mana to be the provisional National Anthem till Constituent Assembly made a final decision.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/21/1973Yashwant Ramkrishna Date, great Marathi dictionary creator, passed away.
12/10/1998Prof. Amartya Sen receives the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics.
4/7/1935Shankar Abaji Bhise, famous Indian scientist, died.
2/2/1862Pandit Shambhunath was the first Indian to become Judge of Indian High Court.
11/19/2000Indian girls lifts Asian junior title in the inaugural Asian Hockey Federation cup under-18 championship in Hong Kong.
9/19/1937Vishnu Narayan Matkhande passed away.
1/22/1989DMK swept to power in Tamil Nadu Assembly election.
3/10/1959Mukundrao Ramarao Jaikar, great freedom fighter and famous lawyer, passed away.
7/9/1996A Delhi court summoned former Prime Minister Narsimha Rao to face trial as an accused in the Lakhubhai Pathak cheating case in which godman Chandraswami was already facing trial.
3/12/1930Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad to break salt law. This march stretched of 375 km. was covered in 26 days with 78 followers. The whole of India joined the campaign to boycott foreign goods and refused to pay taxes. Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan or Frontier Gandhi started Khudai Kidmatgar movement in the North-West Frontier. The Government went back to its brutal force and about 90,000 people were imprisoned within a year. In Peshawar, the Gharwal regiment refused to shoot a demonstrator. In Nagaland Rani Gaidilita, a 13 year old girl raised the flag against the Britishers and was put into life imprisonment in 1932. Nehru hearing this uttered A day will come when India will remember her and Cherish her. She was released after Independence.