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Historical Event on 3/25/1989

India's first super-computer X-MP-14 of US make was dedicated to the nation.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/20/1969M. Hidayatullah became the first acting President of India.
7/22/1925Govind Talwalkar, famous journalist and editor, was born.
2/2/2000The Government decides to appoint former Chief Justice of India M.N. Venkatachaliah as the Chairman of the National Commission to review the Constitution.
5/22/1993Congress (I) suffers reverses in the by-elections.
11/2/1950India rebukes Mao for invasion of Tibet.
10/24/1856Veer Narayan Singh, freedom fighter, was arrested by the British Government at Sambalpur for distributing grains from the warehouse to the people. He was sent to jail at Raipur.
4/14/1950Sri Raman Maharshi, modern south Indian saint, passed away .
9/7/1955All India Council of Secondary Education set up by the Government.
12/14/1955Henry Heras, famous artist and an active member of the Indian Historical Records Commission, died in Bombay.
3/18/1922Mohandas K. Gandhi ""Mahatma,"" the great spirit, sentenced by British authorities to six years in prison for sedition at Sabarmati. Gandhi was sentenced just eight days after he was arrested. The British acted hastily after government officials in London and India were criticized for not arresting him sooner. In London, the Secretary of State for India was forced to resign because of the controversy over Gandhi. In India, the arrests of Gandhi and other Indian nationalists had only increased sympathy for their cause.