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Historical Event on 7/25/1813
First boat race started at Calcutta on the Hooghly river where seven sailing boats had competed.
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| 8/2/1980 | Ramshankar Baij, great sculptor, died. |
| 10/25/1932 | Pearless' investment company was established. |
| 5/15/1958 | Aruna Asaf Ali became the Mayor of Delhi. |
| 4/12/1978 | After several state victories, Congress party-I (for Indira) is recognized as official opposition. |
| 11/7/1998 | Jiwan Singh Umrangal (84), Akali leader and former Punjabi Minister, dies in hospital in Beas. |
| 5/7/1912 | Pannalal Patel, great Gujrati novelist and story writer, was born. |
| 4/8/1985 | India files suit against Union Carbide in New York for Bhopal gas disaster. |
| 4/28/1996 | EC orders re-polling in 69 booths in four states. |
| 11/9/1877 | Muhammad Iqbal, Urdu poet, was born in Sialkot (now in Pakistan). |
| 12/15/1997 | Magsaysay award winning litterateur Mahasweta Devi, Sitar maestro Annapurna Devi and Rabindra Sangeet exponent Suchitra Mitra honoured with 'Desikottam' by Visva Bharati University. |
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