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Historical Event on 7/25/2000
P.T. Usha,Star Indian athlete, announces retirement from International athletics at a press conference in New Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/20/1957 | Govindrao Burhanpurkar, famous harmonium player, died. |
| 5/31/1928 | Pankaj Khirod Roy, cricketer (Indian opener, 413 partnership w/Vinoo Mankad), was born in Calcutta. He was the recipient of Padmashree (1975). |
| 2/13/1994 | Dr. Krishnaprasad Mishra, 'Sahitya Academy Award' winner, Oria novelist and short story writer, passed away. |
| 7/13/1905 | Premnath Bazaz, famous Kashmir freedom fighter, was born. |
| 8/12/1997 | Bar Council of India debars full-time law teachers from practising as lawyers. |
| 2/23/1969 | Madhubala, famous Hindi film actress, passed away. |
| 11/14/1993 | Former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha, who quit JD, joins BJP. |
| 6/24/1763 | Murshidabad was captured by the East India Company under Major Adams for the second time, and Mir Jaffar was declared the King. |
| 8/17/1916 | Amritlal Naagar was born. |
| 10/16/1968 | Hargovind Khorana, Indian scientist, was awarded 1968 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology on man-made synthetic gene. |
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