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Historical Event on 12/25/1974
Indian Aeroplane Jumbo 747 was hijacked and taken over to Rome.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/14/1924 | Ikramullah (Ikram Sagri) Khan, famous Hindi poet, was born at Rehli in Madhya Pradesh. |
| 10/23/1970 | If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour |
| 7/27/1959 | Abbas Ali Baig scores 112 for India v England on debut. |
| 7/20/1993 | British parliament ratifies the Indo-British extradition treaty. |
| 9/22/1988 | PM announces Government's decision to drop Defamation Bill. |
| 11/10/1909 | Gandhiji replies to Tolstoy, sends his biography by Doke. |
| 5/25/1965 | Independent India had further clashes with Pakistan in 1965 and 1971, one over the intractable Kashmir dispute and the other over Bangladesh. A border war was also fought with China in 1962 in the North-Eastern region, which resulted in the loss of Aksai Chin in Ladakh and smaller areas in the North-east. India continues to dispute sovereignty over these areas. |
| 4/8/1953 | Walchand Hirachand, great Industrialist, passed away. |
| 12/8/1920 | A. Adivi Reddy, social reformer and educationist, was born at Chandragiri, AP. |
| 5/14/1982 | All India Radio renamed as 'Akashwani' but it's Urdu service yet announces that it's All India Radio. |
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