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Historical Event on 3/25/1994
Buta Singh exonerated by the Akal Takht after 9 years.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/28/1998 | India and Sri Lanka sign an agreement to establish a bilateral free trade area, after the visiting Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Prime Minister A. B. Vajpayee, have sorted out the differences that held up the negotiations on it in the past. |
| 3/12/1997 | aspal Rana equals world mark in standard pistol 25m (ISU) event in South Asian shooting in Delhi. |
| 1/8/1993 | FERA restrictions removed, resident Indians allowed to keep as much as $500. |
| 8/17/1932 | V.S. Naipaul, great Indian writer, was born. |
| 6/20/1756 | A group of British soldiers along with Halvel were imprisoned by some rebellions in a suffocating cell that gained notoriety as the ""Black Hole of Calcutta."" Most of them died here. |
| 1/22/1992 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was announced to be given to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. |
| 2/11/1913 | Surendranath Dwivedi, educationist, politician and writer, was born in Khandasahi (Orissa). |
| 8/10/1927 | Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu, first Indian astronomer, litterateur and Urdu poet, was born at Madras. |
| 1/29/1979 | Tamil Nadu Expess, India's first Jumbo passenger train, was flagged off from New Delhi Railway Station for Madras. |
| 9/13/2000 | Central Government withdraws the ban on use of non-iodised salt despite protests from the medical community and several state governments. |
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