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Historical Event on 6/25/1992
BJP bags eleven seats in the biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha, Congress (I) secures seven.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/17/1990 | Dinkar Gangadhar Kelkar, famous Director of Raja Kelkar Museum, passed away. |
| 10/29/1935 | Narendra Kumar Chhajerh, great industrialist, was born. |
| 9/29/1998 | ISRO successfully launches its largest sounding rocket, Rohini (RH-560 mk, 11 total payload, 127 kg). |
| 11/16/1913 | Agnihotri Ambadas Shankar, journalist and litterateur, was born. |
| 6/18/1966 | California's hippie subculture converged into a mass of long hair, flowers, and rock music this weekend, as 50,000 flowed into the fairgrounds of the Monterey International Pop Festival. The event featured the largest collection of major rock acts ever assembled; thousands of fans had to be turned away from the sold-out concert. Established artists such as the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, and the Mamas and the Papas received the expected ovations from the huge audience. But the response was equally enthusiastic for performances by Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar and new talents Janis Joplin, the Who, and Jimi Hendrix, a young man who played the electric guitar like nobody else. |
| 2/2/1977 | Jagjivan Ram, Cabinet member of 30 years, resigns to protest emergency rule causing minor split in Congress party. |
| 1/19/2000 | M.A. Chidambaram (81), leading industrialist and chairman of the MAC Group, died in Chennai. |
| 5/6/1775 | Nanda Kumar, king of Calcutta, was arrested. |
| 6/9/1980 | M. G. Ramachandran's second AIADMK ministry takes office. |
| 11/24/1991 | Bihar's ruling JD makes a clean sweep of all the three Lok Sabha seats in the by-elections. |
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