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Historical Event on 5/25/1999
The Prime Minister declares the Centre will take all possible steps to push back infiltrators in Kargil.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/23/1933 | Rajan Mehra, cricket test umpire for 2 tests from 1986-87, was born at Delhi. |
| 7/23/1904 | The Great Indian Peninsula Railway started First Class restaurant cars on its mail trains. |
| 5/6/2000 | Benoy Krishna Chowdhury (89), veteran freedom fighter and prominent CPI(M) leader, died at a Government Hospital in Calcutta. |
| 8/21/1997 | Krishan Kant assumes office as tenth Vice President of India. |
| 3/18/1996 | President confers gallantry awards on 65 personnel of the defence forces. |
| 7/1/1992 | Central Railway started special train for ladies in Mumbai. |
| 1/1/1879 | Edward M Forster, English novelist (Howards End, Passage to India), was born. |
| 8/19/1994 | Rupee made fully convertible on current account. |
| 9/8/1982 | Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, former Chief Minister of Kashmir, who dominated the political scene of Jammu and Kashmir for 50 years, died. He was 77. |
| 11/16/1983 | Kapil Dev took 9-83 vs West Indies at Ahmedabad. India still lost the game. |
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