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Historical Event on 8/25/1919
Bindeshwari Prasad Mandal, former Chief Minister of Bihar and President of Mandal Commission, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/1/1990 | Supreme Court stays implementation of Mandal Commission recommendations. |
| 12/16/1924 | Nissim Ezekiel, educationist and author, was born. |
| 2/16/1911 | Bhalchandra Gopal Bapat, newspaper editor and educationalist, was born. |
| 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. |
| 1/1/1955 | Shantiswaroop Bhatnagar, famous Indian Chemical Expert, died. |
| 7/25/1988 | Sikh extremists kill the chief priest of the Golden Temple in Amritsar. |
| 1/19/1948 | India and Pakistan accept U.N. mediation in New York. |
| 1/1/1974 | This year was announced to be observed as the ""World Population Year"". |
| 1/28/1933 | India in Waldorf Hotel in London read out a four and a half page note in Cambridge. |
| 5/3/1947 | Indian National Trade Union Congress Intak was established. |
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