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Historical Event on 2/25/1999

The curtains came down on the fifth National Games. Manipur won the overall championship while swimmers Nisha Millet of Karnataka and Sebastian Xavier of Kerala were adjudged the best sportswoman and sportsman respectively.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/25/1977B. D. Jathi retired from the post of second acting President.
3/23/1942Second World War was turning against the British and they needed the help of the Indians. So Prime Minister Churhill sent a delegation under Sir Stafford Cripps (Cripps Mission) to hold talks with the Indian leaders on the future of the subcontient in UK, which could not take place because of the non-cooperation movement and they left after a fortnight. They submitted their report in April 1942 which was rejected by the Congress and Muslim League.
6/25/1994Bombay's former underworld don Haji Masthan Mirza passed away.
3/29/1998The new govt. wins the vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha.
12/9/1992More than 700 die in clashes in Ayodhya; BJP bandh partial.
3/3/1939Motganhalli Laxmanarsu Jaisi alais Jaisimha, cricketer (Indian batsman of the sixties), was born in Secundrabad.
5/18/1988The ten-day Golden Temple siege at Amritsar ends with the surrender of 46 militant Sikhs.
6/6/1997Five killed and 17 injured in a bus explosion in Gurdaspur district of Punjab.
5/7/1973Shivkumar Batalvi, famous Punjabi poet, died.
8/4/1993Swami Chinmayananda, master in study of Bhagwadgita, died at the age of 76 in San Diego.