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Historical Event on 2/25/1903
Judge Kailas Nath Wanchoo, chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/6/1955 | 55 miners die in explosion in Bihar State. |
| 7/27/1941 | Japanese forces land in Indo-China. |
| 1/14/1993 | The Supreme Court absolves Railway Minister Jaffer Sharief of corruption charges in the wagon deal with Asea Brown Boveri. |
| 10/30/1996 | Pop star Michael Jackson arrives in Bombay. |
| 10/28/1999 | The Delhi High Court stays TRAI's plan to introduce free incoming calls on mobile phones from November 1. |
| 12/23/1900 | Charansingh Chaudhary, former Prime Minister of India and a farmer's leader, was born. |
| 2/18/1993 | Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"". |
| 9/27/1989 | Hemanta Kumar Mukherjee, noted playback singer and music director, died. |
| 11/1/1992 | Indirabai Khadilkar, famous singer, died. |
| 4/22/1942 | Galagnath (Vyanktesh Tirko Kulkarni), famous Kannad novelist, passed away. |
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