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Historical Event on 9/25/2000

A Delhi Court dismisses applications of three of the 17 accused seeking dropping of proceedings against them in the sensational Coomar Narain espionage case which hit the headlines and rattled the Rajiv Gandhi Government in 1985.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/16/1996J & K second phase poll for 34 seats.
1/1/1664Shivaji assumes royal title.
2/10/1859General Horsford defeats Begum of Oude & Nana Sahib in Indian mutiny.
8/15/1947India gains independence from the British rule and Pakistan emerges as a separate Islamic nation. Around 600,000 die in clashes during the subsequent population exchange of 14 million people between the two new countries.
8/13/1951Acharya Kishoridas Vajpayee passed away.
6/6/1981The worst-ever railway accident took place in Bihar when a train plunged in Samastipur river.
9/5/1979Earl of Mountbatten's funeral held in Burma.
1/8/1884Keshav Chunder Sen, nationalist leader of Bengal, social worker and good orator of Brahma Samaj, passed away at his home in Lily Cottage, Calcutta. He was one of the first Indians to sow the seeds of secularism in our country. He strongly believed that education was the basic necessity to change the society.
3/23/199710 Dalits killed in Kab village of Bihar by Ranbir Sena, a pro-landlord extremist organisation.
12/5/1951Abanindranath Tagore, a great Modern Indian Painter, passed away.