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Historical Event on 4/25/1982
India's first telecast colour broadcasting started on Dordarshan.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/1/1976 | Television was separated from radio, and Doordarshan Corporation was established. |
| 2/16/1911 | Bhalchandra Gopal Bapat, newspaper editor and educationalist, was born. |
| 6/13/1940 | Revolutionary leader Udham Singh was hanged for charges of assassinating Micheal Odair, who was the Governor General of Punjab at the time of Jalianwala Baug massacre. |
| 4/25/1906 | Dara Nusserwanji Marshall, librarian and educationist, was born. |
| 2/7/1992 | Shalki', the first submarine designed in India, joined Indian Navy. |
| 5/14/1923 | Narayan Ganesh Chandavarkar, one of the founder members of Indian Congress and social reformer, passed away. |
| 1/22/1993 | A Patna-Lucknow-Delhi IA flight IC-810 was hijacked by a certain Satish Chandra Pandey shortly after take-off. |
| 2/19/1902 | Pandit Lallu Ram appointed as Hindi Professor at Fort William College, Calcutta. |
| 9/24/1938 | Piloo Dara Reporter, cricket test umpire for 10 tests from 1984-87, was born in Mumbai. He was the first ever test umpire to be invited in a foreign country along with V. K. Ramaswamy also of India. |
| 3/22/1977 | Indira Gandhi-led Indian National Congress party lost the 6th general election of India. She resigned as Pime Minister of India. |
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