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Historical Event on 1/25/1994
Mine fire at Asansol India, kills 55.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/22/1887 | Srinivas Ramanujam, India's greatest mathematician, was born at Erode in Tamil Nadu. |
| 7/31/1980 | Muhammad Rafi, famous playback singer, died at the age of 40. |
| 9/24/1922 | Jugal Mondal, social worker and politician, was born at Howrah. |
| 5/6/1922 | Chhatrapati Rajarshi Shahu, great revolutionary, freedom fighter and social reformer of Kolhapur, passed away at Bombay. He was 48. |
| 10/1/1854 | Postal stamp introduced in India. These lithographed stamps were of denominations of half anna and one anna. These stamps bore the Head of Queen Victoria with India at top and value at bottom. The half anna stamp was printed between May 5 to July 29 and printing of one anna stamp commenced on July 26. |
| 4/12/1621 | Guru Teg Bahadur Singh, Sikh Guru, was born. |
| 12/15/1999 | Yashwant Sinha, Finance Minister, arrives in Berlin to attend G-20 meet. |
| 4/11/1952 | Treaty between France and India, transferring the former French settlement of Chandranagar to India, is ratified by the National Assembly, Paris. It was the last formal step in completing the process of sovereignty. |
| 9/18/1803 | Puri was captured by Britishers from the Marathas without any struggle. |
| 7/25/1992 | R. Venkataraman retired from the post of 8th President. |
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