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Historical Event on 5/25/1995

Parliament gives assent to Budget and passes Finance Appropriation Bill.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/18/1988Jan Nayak Karpoori Thakur, freedom fighter, political leader, great social reformer, teacher and national president of Samyukta Socialist Party, passed away.
7/13/1905Premnath Bazaz, famous Kashmir freedom fighter, was born.
2/11/1959Vinoo Mankad plays his final Test Cricket (vs West Indies at Delhi).
4/7/1987In a case filed by Saira Banu of Kerela, Supreme Court held that all wives, including Muslim women, whose husbands have either married again or taken a mistress are entitled to maintenance.
10/1/1894Sudhi Ranjan Das, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born in Calcutta.
1/20/1817Ram Mohun Roy started Hindu College in Calcutta with the help of Justice H. East David Hare. This college was later renamed as the Presidency College.
10/25/1990Captain Sangma, first Chief Minister of Meghalaya, died.
10/1/1854Postal stamp introduced in India. These lithographed stamps were of denominations of half anna and one anna. These stamps bore the Head of Queen Victoria with India at top and value at bottom. The half anna stamp was printed between May 5 to July 29 and printing of one anna stamp commenced on July 26.
12/26/1999Shankar Dayal Sharma (81), former President of India, died in New Delhi.
6/6/1961Central Institute of Fisheries Education, a deemed university, was established in Mumbai to impart post-graduate education and training, mainly to the in-service fisheries personnel of the country to provide trained manpower for the fisheries developmental activities.