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Historical Event on 8/25/1999

Former Indian Davis Cup captain Narendra Nath died in Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/6/1858Nanasaheb Peshwa, a revolutionary of first mutiny, died.
7/17/1997K.R. Narayanan,Vice President, wins in the Presidential election with a record margin to become the next head of state.
3/24/1947Lord Louis Mountbatten came to India.
11/14/1997N. V. N. Somu, Union Minister of State for Defence and president of The Hindu Office and National Press Employees Union from 1969, died in Army Helicopter crash at Tezpur in Arunachal Pradesh.
6/29/1757Mir Zafar was installed on the throne as the Nawab of Bengal, Bihar and Orrisa from Murshidabad.
11/15/1911First meeting of the governing body of the Indian Research Fund Association (IRFA) was held at the Plague Laboratory, Bombay, under the Chairmanship of Sir Harcourt Butler.
12/8/1994At 1730 hrs, a rocket propelled grenade fired by Somalia militia during inter clan fighting exploded on the roof of the barrack which housed IAF officers. In the explosion, two officers and an airman were injured.
1/23/1809Veer Surendra Sai, freedom fighter and revolutionary, was born in Khinda village in the north of Sambalpur at Orissa.
9/28/1993Gas pipe below Karakas National Highway exploded claiming 58 lives.
12/5/1935Bipinchandra Joshi, chief of Indian Army general, was born.