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Historical Event on 5/25/1996

Maharashta govt. announces decision to revive Sri Krishna Commission set up to probe the 1993 Mumbai riots.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/17/1986In the Jehovah's Witnesses' case, the Supreme Court rules that ""singing National Anthem is not obligatory"".
3/4/1919Jagtindar Nath Beri, physics expert, was born.
8/2/1880Bellary Raghava, famous actor, lawyer, social worker and dramatist, was born.
10/5/1997Kiran Bedi, India's first woman police officer, was awarded the Joseph Beuys prize for her work in reforming the largest prison of the country.
3/22/1999Punjab men, Railway women emerged National basketball champions in Jaipur.
12/9/1873Lord Northbrook, Viceroy and Governor General of India laid the foundation stone of the building.
4/30/1981C. R. Krishnaswamy Rao was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 08-02-1985.
10/20/1962China mounted a massive attacked in N.E.E.F.A. and Ladakh borders. Chinese army pushed Indians back. The real test of IAF airlift capability came when open warfare erupted on the Sino-lndian border, while operating to the tricky helipads in the mountains, including the operation of C-119Gs from airstrips 17,000 ft (5180m) above sea level in the Karakoram Himalayas, and the air-lifting by An-12Bs of two troops of AMX-13 light tanks to Chushul in Ladakh, where the small airstrip was 15,000 ft (4570m) above sea level.
11/3/1929Dr. Hemant Vishnu Inamdar, thesis writer and editor, was born.
9/20/1856Narayan Guru was born in Chempazhanthi village of Kerala. Sri Narayan Guru was a social reformer, led reform movement in Kerala, rejected casteism, and promoted new values of spiritual freedom and social equality. He also stressed the need for the spiritual and social uplift of the downtrodden by their own efforts through the establishment of temples and educational institutions. In the process, he denounced the superstitions that clouded the fundamental Hindu cultural convention of caste.