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Historical Event on 8/25/1999

Former Indian Davis Cup captain Narendra Nath died in Delhi.

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5/1/1977Janata Party was established.
9/28/1993Gas pipe below Karakas National Highway exploded claiming 58 lives.
11/13/1970Flooding ravages Ganges delta. 200,000 million killed.
9/26/1996CBI chargesheeted Rao in St. Kitts case.
2/15/1865Kishorilal Goswami, Hindi novelist, was born.
2/21/1952The XV Indian Olympic Games in Madras.
2/13/1922The Indian National Congress suspends its civil disobedience campaign in the face of mounting violence.
5/18/1912Narayan Govind Chitre, with the help of R. P. Tipnis and Cameraman Johnson, produced a 8000 ft. long theatrical film 'Pundalik', which was directed by Ramchandra Torney alias Dada Saheb Torne. The entire film was shot in a theatre at Mangaldas Wadi in Bombay, where the Sangit Mandali, a professional theatre group, was performing a play 'Pundalik'. The film was released on May, 18 in the Coronation Cinematograph at Girgaum, Bombay.
5/7/1990Government of India bans strikes in any service in any oil field or refinery under the Essential Services Maintenance Act.
9/5/1918Ratanji Jamshetji Tata, famous Indian industrialist and social reformer, died.