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Historical Event on 2/25/1760
Lord Clive left India. His successors as Governors of India were J. Holwell and H. Vansittart from July 1760 to 1765. He was re-posted to India on May 3, 1765.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/12/2000 | The Government appointed S. K. Mahajan of Delhi High Court as the chairman of the one-man tribunal to adjudicate whether or not there was sufficient cause for declaring LTTE as unlawful. |
| 1/14/1946 | Two jetties collapse in Ganges; 160 Hindu pilgrims are crushed. |
| 3/11/1990 | Darbarsingh, former Chief Minister of Punjab, passed away. |
| 9/28/1985 | The first Indian Army expedition, sailing around the world in a small 37 feet fibre glass yacht named ""Trishna"", sailed off from Bombay. (10-1-87). |
| 2/2/1996 | Doordarshan Kendra was inagurated at Port Blair. |
| 12/28/1926 | Imperial Airways begins England-India mail & passenger service. |
| 12/25/2000 | A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, launches a Rs.60,000 crore ''Gram Sadak Yojana'' for linking all villages and the ""Antyodaya Anna Scheme'' for providing cheap foodgrains under the TPDS. |
| 10/2/1950 | Persis Khambatta, famous actress (Star Trek, Megaforce), was born in Bombay. |
| 2/22/1913 | Judge Mirza Hameedullah Beg, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born in Lucknow. |
| 10/13/1679 | More than 20,000 lives were claimed near Massurla Pattanam city, costal area of South India, in a severe storm. |
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