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Historical Event on 12/25/1995
First major multi-organ transplant in the country performed in Apollo Hospital in Madras.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/23/1952 | Employees Provident Fund Bill and Miscellaneous Provision Act passed in the Lok Sabha. |
| 7/1/1909 | Madanlal Dhingra, revolutionary, assassinated Sir William Curzon Wyllie, a prominent Anglo-Indian, at the Imperial Institute in London. |
| 7/18/1993 | India beats France 3-2 in a sensational Davis Cup tie to enter into the semi-final. |
| 8/1/1993 | Jananayak Debeswar Sarmah, great freedom fighter, architect and nationalist, died at Jorhat, Assam. |
| 8/1/1993 | The famous Vijaynagar Hindu Empire established (1336-1565-1646), Deccan region of South India is founded. European visitors are overwhelmed by the wealth and advancement of its 17-square-mile capital. |
| 1/26/1957 | India annexes Kashmir, Constitution for incorporation with India goes into effect. |
| 1/22/1965 | Plutonium Project (Sanyantra) was inaugurated at Trombay, Mumbai. |
| 7/3/1897 | Hansa Mehta, educationist and social reformer, was born at Surat (Gujarat). |
| 8/1/1882 | Purushottamdas Tandon, great leader and editor, was born at Allahabad (U.P.). |
| 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 |
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