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Historical Event on 1/25/1824
Micheal Madhusudan Dutta, Bengali poet and dramatist, was born in Sagardari village of Jessore district.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/14/1979 | Nirode Ranjan Chowdhury, cricketer, two Tests for India and bowling average of 205, died. |
| 5/25/1997 | Seven Pakistani infiltrators are killed in an encounter with BSF in Ranbir Singh Pora. |
| 10/11/1962 | Chinese, Indian troops clash on border, claiming 50 lives. |
| 12/25/1964 | Indian Ocean hurricane kills 4,000 in Ceylon, 3,000 in Indian province of Madras. |
| 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 |
| 2/16/1994 | Nivrittibuwa Sarnaik, veteran singer of 'Jaipur Gharana', passed away. |
| 2/6/1932 | Dorabji Jamshetji Tata, great industrialist, passed away. |
| 8/5/1994 | Yakub Abdul Razak Memon, a key accused in 1993's Bombay blast case, was arrested. |
| 4/16/1903 | Kalka-Simla Railway line section was opened for public conveyance. |
| 2/7/1795 | Dutch Prince William V accepts British occupation of Dutch Indies. |
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