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Historical Event on 2/25/1844
Girishchandra Ghosh, famous Bengali actor and dramatist, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/28/1971 | Nanak Singh, famous novelist and poet, died at Preet Nagar. |
| 10/17/1997 | SEBI asks investors to adopt paperless trading through depository. |
| 8/3/1998 | India's most sophisticated medium range surface-to-air missile ''Akash'' was test-fired from the interim test range at Chandipur-on-sea. |
| 9/9/1949 | Hindi was accepted as the national language of India. |
| 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 |
| 5/9/1866 | Gopal Krishna Gokhale, freedom fighter and political leader, was born in Kotluk village of Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra. |
| 7/17/1987 | V. P. Singh announces resignation from Congress; R. Venkataraman elected President of India. |
| 1/1/1999 | This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Year of Elderly"". |
| 9/22/1988 | PM announces Government's decision to drop Defamation Bill. |
| 10/20/1990 | Kona Prabhakar Rao, former Governor of Maharashtra, died. |
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