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Historical Event on 4/25/1993
Indian Airlines plane hijacker shot dead by commandoes. All 141 persons rescued.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/30/1882 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt, great leader and social reformer, was born at Hyde Park, New York. |
| 12/8/1942 | Hemant Shamsunder Kanitkar, cricketer (batted in two Tests India v WI 1974), was born in Amravati, Maharashtra. |
| 2/18/1918 | Gopal Krishna Adig, modern Kannad poet, was born. |
| 4/22/1840 | James Princes, British research scientist and archeaologist, passed away. |
| 1/15/1998 | Gulzari Lal Nanda, Gandhian freedom fighter and twice acting Prime Minister in 1964 and 1966, died in Ahmedabad at the age of 100 years. |
| 1/30/1785 | Sir Charles Metkaff, governor general of East India Company, was born. |
| 12/6/1995 | Prabhakar Barve,painter of international fame, passed away. |
| 3/8/1997 | G. K. Moopanar unanimously elected first president of Tamil Maanila Congress. |
| 1/1/1880 | Money order system was introduced. |
| 9/10/1999 | Top seeds Bhupathi and Paes finished runners-up in the US Open doubles, losing to Sebastien Lareau and Alex O'Brien in the final. |
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