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25 June - India on this day22 events

1994

Bombay's former underworld don Haji Masthan Mirza passed away.

#crime25-June-1994
1880

Syed Muhammad Zamin Ali, great educationist, poet, editor, professor, writer and founder-member of the Hindustani Academy, was born at Mustafabad village in the Rae Bareli district of U.P.

#birth#literature#education25-June-1880
1888

Lord Louis Mountbatten, British politician, was born.

#birth25-June-1888
1900

Louis Mountbatten, last British Voiceroy and first Governor General of independent India, was born at England.

#birth25-June-1900
1908

Sucheta Kriplani, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, was born.

#birth#politics25-June-1908
1931

Vishwanath Pratapsing, former Prime Minister of India, was born.

#birth25-June-1931
1998

Sikh high priests exonerate the Akali Dal leader and chief of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, Gurcharan Singh Tohra, of charges of violating a ``Hukumnama'' (religious edict) issued by the Akal Takht, which prescribed a complete boycott of the members of the Nirankari missions for their ''blasphemous'' activities.

#religion#general25-June-1998
1945

Lord Vevil talk to the Indian political leaders.

#meeting25-June-1945
1529

Babur reached to his capital Agra after winning Bengal.

#general25-June-1529
1658

6th Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb arrested his father Shahjahan and put him in Agra Fort Jail.

#general25-June-1658
1943

No. 8 Squadron started functioning absorbing the remaining coastal defence flight personnel, and also issued with a vengeance to achieve operational status.

#general25-June-1943
1975

President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed signed the declaration of Emergency Rule in India. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi implemented the same very next day.

#general#politics#women25-June-1975
1997

USA & India sign a new bilateral treaty for the extradition of fugitive offenders.

#general25-June-1997
1994

Dinsha Pirosha Madan, Chief Justice of Supreme Court, died.

#law#death25-June-1994
1932

India played their first official test match on the ground of Lords against England.

#sports25-June-1932
1983

India won 'Prudential World Cup' Cricket Championship held in England after defeating West Indies.

#sports25-June-1983
2000

India lifts the Asia Cup sub-junior hockey championship in Kuala Lumpur.

#sports25-June-2000
1999

PSCB emerged men's and women's champions in the inter-institutional table tennis in Gandhidham.

#sports25-June-1999
2000

The Government agrees to the bifurcation of the Telecom Ministry.

#command#politics25-June-2000
1922

Satyendranath Datta, famous Bengali poet, passed away.

#death25-June-1922
1992

BJP bags eleven seats in the biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha, Congress (I) secures seven.

#politics25-June-1992
1993

Mahadevan, SBI MD, sacked in the wake of his role in the securities scam.

#controversy25-June-1993