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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
| 1/25/1824 |
Micheal Madhusudan Dutta, Bengali poet and dramatist, was born in Sagardari village of Jessore district. |
| 1/25/1856 |
Battle of Seattle; skirmish between settlers & Indians. |
| 1/25/1880 |
Brahmo Samaj of modernisation and fraternity amongst religions Nababidhan Keshab Chandra Sen introduced. |
| 1/25/1914 |
Gandhi reaches agreement with South African Union govt. on treatment of Indian nationals at South Africa. |
| 1/25/1917 |
Captain P.K. Sahgal, freedom fighter who attended Indian Military Academy course at Dehradun, was born at Hoshiarpur. |
| 1/25/1930 |
Mehdi Baqer, great educationist, was born at Faizabad in UP. |
| 1/25/1932 |
Rammanohar Vishnunarayan Tripathi, great social worker and political leader of Maharashtra, was born. |
| 1/25/1948 |
French India Peoples' Convention, Pondicherry, passed a resolution for complete merger of the French India with the Dominion of India. - G. V. Mavlankar was elected the first Speaker of the Indian Parliament. |
| 1/25/1950 |
The post of the Governor General of India was abolished. |
| 1/25/1954 |
Manabendranath Roy, famous leader of socialist revolution, passed away at Dehradun. |
| 1/25/1957 |
Kashmir becomes Indian state. |
| 1/25/1971 |
Himachal Pradesh High Court was established at Shimla for Himachal Pradesh Territory. |
| 1/25/1971 |
Himachal Pradesh becomes a full-fledged 18th Indian Union state. |
| 1/25/1976 |
Surinder Amarnath scores 124 on Test debut during India vs New Zealand at Auckland. |
| 1/25/1980 |
Awards regarding Public Honour were re-started by Goverment of India; Mother Teresa was honoured by Bharat Ratna, Padma Vibhushan, etc. |
| 1/25/1983 |
Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Acharya Vinobha Bhave (Posthumous) (1895-1982). |
| 1/25/1983 |
Telugu Desam swept to power in Andhra Pradesh. |
| 1/25/1988 |
Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Dr. Marudu Gopalan Ramachandran, MGR (Posthumous) (1917-1987). |
| 1/25/1989 |
Congress-I ministry headed by S. C. Jamir assumes office in Nagaland. |
| 1/25/1989 |
Motilal Vora sworn in as CM of Madhya Pradesh. |
| 1/25/1992 |
Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata (1904-1993). |
| 1/25/1992 |
Swaran Singh and Vajpayee awarded 'Padma Vibhushan'. |
| 1/25/1994 |
Mine fire at Asansol India, kills 55. |
| 1/25/1995 |
India and South Africa sign three pacts to forge special ties. |
| 1/25/1999 |
Dr. R. Chidambaram, nuclear scientist, among the 14 distinguished personalities chosen for Padma Vibhushan. Sachin Tendulkar and Ruskin Bond get Padma Shri. |
| 1/25/2000 |
The Centre begins the process of privatising the country's domestic carrier, Indian Airlines, and also approves the sale of majority equity in Modern Foods India Limited. |
| 1/25/2000 |
The Government awards Padma Vibhushan to R.K. Narayan, Dr.M.S. Gill; Padma Bhushan for Rajnikant and Padmashri for A.R. Rehman. |
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