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Historical Event on 1/25/1992

Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata (1904-1993).

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/17/1973Leander Vece Paes, tennis player who singles bronze at Atlanta Olympics (1996), was born. He was also a winner of French Open in 1999, Gold Flake Open, Newport 1998, Wimbledon 1999 (doubles and mixed doubles).
4/2/2000Guru Granth Sahib is a juristic person and can hold property, says the apex court in a judgment of ''far-reaching consequences and great significance''.
10/21/1995L.K.Advani unanimously re-elected BJP president for the fourth time in New Delhi.
6/19/1990NDC approves approach paper to the Eighth Plan.
4/26/1895Guru Baksha Singh, modern Punjabi litterateur was born.
1/21/1993Biren Roy, follower of Netaji Subhashchandra Bose, passed away.
7/24/1837Kanishta, son of Samajya Laxshmi, was killed.
6/4/1903Gandhiji established the weekly journal ""Indian Opinion"" organised at Phoenix farm near Durban.
9/16/1955Leopold C. M. S. Amery, British minister of Colonies (India), died at the age of 81.
6/21/1862Ganendra Mohan Tagore was the first Indian to get the Barrister-at-Law Degree after passing the examination from Lincoln Inn University.