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Historical Event on 3/25/1911
L. D. Swamikannu publishes ""Manual of Indian Chronology"" in Bombay.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/23/1997 | Communication equipment worth several crores destroyed and Chennai's land and mobile telephone networks thrown out of gear in a fire at Anna Road telephone exchange. |
| 1/4/1940 | Shrikant Sinkar, famous Marathi novelist, was born. |
| 3/6/1961 | India's first Financial daily 'The Economic Times' started publication from Bombay. |
| 3/18/1922 | Mohandas 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. |
| 11/3/1999 | Dr. M. S. Swaminathan, well-known agricultural scientist, is selected for the UNESCO Gandhi gold medal. |
| 5/12/1984 | Dr. Rajah Sir Muthiah Chettiar, social reformer, passed away at Madras. |
| 5/19/1904 | Jamshedji Nasarvanji Tata, famous industrialist and father of modern technology, passed away at Nauheim, Hesse-Nassau, France. He commenced cotton mills in Bombay and Nagpur and founded the Tata Iron and Steel Company, which is one of the largest integrated steel mills in the world. |
| 1/14/1990 | India and Maldives scrap visas. |
| 12/25/1926 | Dharmavir Bharti, journalist and editor of Dharmyug, was born. His famous books are ""Gunahon Ka Devta"" and ""Suraj Ka Satwa Ghoda"". |
| 12/25/1926 | Mughals capture Ahmednagar. |
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