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Historical Event on 1/25/1988

Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Dr. Marudu Gopalan Ramachandran, MGR (Posthumous) (1917-1987).

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/5/1998Laloo Yadav, RJD president, and BSP chief Kanshi Ram launch a seven-party ""Jan Morcha"".
9/25/195414 Members of Parliament (MP) form a new party called the Union of Socialist Progress. Acharya Kripalani is the leader.
8/5/1992The Supreme Court appoints a 3-member panel to visit Ayodhya and report on the new structures there.
10/16/1999A woman is elected as the Speaker of the Sikkim Assembly.
5/27/1906Maharashtra Sahitya Patrika Day.
8/14/1900S. K. Patil, Congress leader, was born.
11/10/1938Mustafa Kemal Ataturk passed away at Istanbul.
6/15/1990Punjab Government returned gold and other valuables seized from Golden Temple during the 1984 Blue Star operation to SGPC.
1/19/1977World's largest crowd--12.7 million--gather for Indian religious festival 'Kumbh Mela'.
1/10/1693Job Charnock, founder of Calcutta, died in the same city and he was laid to rest.