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Historical Event on 10/25/1296
Saint Gyaneshwar passed away. (Samadhee).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/20/1898 | Krishna Kanta Handique, great linguist, educationist, principal of J.B. College and Padma Bhushan awardee, was born at Jorhat. |
| 3/9/1951 | Ustad Zakir Hussain, famous Tabla player, was born. |
| 11/28/1704 | Jacob Mossel, Governor General (Dutch East Indies), was born. |
| 11/18/1973 | Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, passed away. She came to India in 1914. |
| 2/17/1931 | Viceroy of India Lord Irvin accepted Mahatma Gandhi as leader of people and invited him at Vicregal Lodge (now known at Rashtrapati Bhavan). After the event, Winston Churchill, who later became Prime Minister of Britain, referred Gandhiji as ""the Half-Naked Fakir of India"". |
| 7/21/1935 | Establishment 'Mumabi Marathi Sahitya Sangh'. |
| 7/28/1924 | Many deaths were reported and several villages were destroyed due to floods in the south. |
| 9/1/1956 | Life Insurance Corporation of India was established and all Life Insurance Business Companies were nationalised and merged in this corporation. |
| 9/1/1956 | Maharana Pratap, great revolutionary, soldier and freedom fighter, was born. |
| 11/5/1998 | Baba Nagarjun ""Vaidyanath Mishra"" died. He wrote in Hindi, Maithali and Sanskrit. Some of his noted works are ""Patra-Heen- Nagna Gachh"", ""Dukhmochan"", ""Yugdhara"" and ""Sah |
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