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Historical Event on 6/25/1975

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

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/1/1970Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act was enforced. This act was passed in 1969.
6/1/1970Sikandar Sur was compelled to surrender Mankot in Punjab.
5/31/1973Mohan Kumaramangalam, Central Minister, died in an air crash near Delhi.
4/6/1773James Mill of Scotland, great philosopher and historian (British India), was born.
5/2/1998The Indian Army at Bandipura market captured 10.5 Kg Charas.
3/1/1993Narayan Ganesh Goray passed away (1-5-98).
5/18/1966Panchanan Maheshwari, great Indian scientist of botany, passed away. He studied the morphology, anatomy and embryology of some angiosperms, the class of plants which produce flowers. He discovered species of plants like ""Panchanania Jaipuriensis and Isoeted Panchananil."" He wrote two authoritative books, 'An Introduction to the Embryology of Angiosperms' & 'Recent Advances in Embryology on Angiosperms'. In 1951, he founded the International Society of plant Morphologists.
10/5/1676East India company got authority from the King of England to mint Indian currencies 'Rupee and Paise' coins in Bombay.
1/17/1888Babu Gulab Rai, famous Hindi essy writer, critic and historian, was born.
9/8/2000Dr. Surinder K. Vasal, Indian maize breeder, and Dr. Evagelina Villegas, Mexican cereal chemist, jointly awarded the World Food Prize-2000 for their decades-long scientific quest to produce quality protein maize for developing countries.