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Historical Event on 8/25/1994

Ramdas Nayak, President of BJP Mumbai and former MLA was assassinated at Chembur, Mumbai. He was 52.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/10/1896Gangadhar Kelkar, founder of famous Raja Kelkar Museum at Pune Dinkar, was born.
6/23/2000Indian journalist Palagummi Sainath gets Amnesty International Global award for human rights journalism..
6/11/1996Narasimha Rao's name figures in fresh FIR on bribing JMM MPs case.
6/5/1984Operation 'Blue Star' was launched by Indira Gandhi. Indian commandos stormed into Sikh's holiest gurudwara Golden Temple in Amritsar to flush out the terrorists and other anti-government elements. Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and over 325 people were killed in the temple. Thus a great rebel arose all over the nation and specially in Punjab.
4/7/1962Umrigar slams 172* vs WI at Port-of-Spain in 248 minutes.
8/18/1920Harbhajan Singh, educationist and writer, was born at Lumding.
4/4/1990Lata Mangeshkar wins 1989 Dada Saheb Phalke award.
3/1/1950The population figure for India is announced as 347,340,000.
3/12/1612Usman Khan Lohani, son of Isa Khan, was defeated in the battle of Nekujyal. He died as the last independent ruler of Bengal.
5/30/1826The first Hindi newspaper 'Udant Martand' was published from Calcutta under the Editorship of Pandit Shridhar Shukla.