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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
5/25/1999Husain Quli, the new Governor of Bengal, defeated the rebels and put them to fight. Daud was captured and put to death.
10/28/1996Press Council of India to set up a 5-member committee headed by Chairman P.B. Sawant to inquire into the attack on journalists outside the New Delhi residence of Kanshi Ram.
12/6/1897Lekhraj Kishanchand Mirchandani (Aziz), famous Sindhi poet, essay writer and critic, was born.
11/27/1881Kashi Prasad Jayaswal, great lawyer, philosopher and eminent historian, was born at Mirzapur, UP.
2/8/1912Girishchandra Ghosh, famous Bengali actor and dramatist, passed away.
1/15/1888Saifuddin Kitchlew, freedom fighter and President of the Punjab, was born at Amritsar.
10/24/1934Arvindrao Laxmanrao Apte, cricketer (brother of Madhav scored 8 & 7 runs in one Test), was born in Bombay.
5/21/1999A powerful bomb explodes and another is defused on the road leading to the Imphal airport minutes before the Prime Minister landed to commence his two-day visit to the State.
2/3/1983Prime Minister Indira Gandhi laid the foundation stone of Assam's new capital 'Pragjyotishpur'.
7/23/1903Chandra Shekhar Azad was born Today in 1903