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Historical Event on 10/25/1951
First General Election of India begins.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/24/1972 | Jamini Roy, Padmabhushan awardee and famous painter, passed away. |
| 8/12/1928 | The Olympic Games hosted by Amsterdam fully realized Pierre de Coubertin's vision: 'the nations of the world in friendly competition'. After a succession of Olympics dominated by North America and Western Europe, Amsterdam welcomed more than 3,000 competitors. |
| 1/6/1989 | Lord Sudhindra Prasanna Sinha died. |
| 1/6/1989 | Humayun died at Delhi. Two days earlier he had slipped on the staircase of a library being constructed at the Old Fort. |
| 1/29/1997 | Supreme Court rules that water is a 'mineral'. |
| 8/9/1952 | New Delhi reports that 20 mil. Indian peasants were imperiled by crop failures. |
| 8/9/1952 | The Sultan, losing his hold over the army and some members of his aristocracy, very wisely abdicated in favour of his brother Ahmad, who is famous in Deccan history as Ahmad Shah Wali. |
| 3/31/1980 | Nirmal Mukherjee, the last Indian Civil Service Officer, retired from service as Cabinet Secretary. |
| 8/18/1957 | Tilak Raj was appointed the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed his office for four years till 6th September, 1961. |
| 9/7/1999 | India rejects Pakistan demand for a East Timor type of referendum in Kashmir. |
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