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Historical Event on 5/25/1999

The Prime Minister declares the Centre will take all possible steps to push back infiltrators in Kargil.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/15/1999The CPI (M) urges the Centre to take over Dunlop India Ltd.
11/30/1920N. B. Kamat, filmmaker and distributor, was born.
5/25/1877Sir John Lawrence--passenger steamer of McLean & Co. of Calcutta--sank near the coastline of Orrisa in a storm. This ship carried 732 passengers.
6/1/1947Balbhimraj Gore, litterateur and Hindi critic, was born.
2/12/1932Roby James Francis D. Silva, great industrialist, artist and designer, was born at Bombay.
7/27/19987 Hindus are gunned down in two Doda villages of Jammu and Kashmir.
2/20/1999India and Pakistan signed a formal agreement for launching the Delhi-Lahore bus service.
4/17/1923Lindsay Anderson, director (Thursday's Children), was born in Bangalore, India.
1/9/1922Har Gobind Khurana, scientist of Biology, was born in India. He did his M.Sc from University of Punjab and, for higher education went to University of Liverpool. In 1959, he produced a chemical called ""Coenzymea"", which is essential for certain processes in the human body. He was awarded Nobel Prize for medicine in 1968 along with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Halley.
6/19/1949People of Chandernagar, the French Indian Settlement, decided to merge with the Indian Union.