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Historical Event on 5/25/1999

India blasts its way into the global satellite launch vehicle market with the PSLV-C2 deploying two foreign satellites besides the Indian remote sensing satellite, IRS-P4.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/12/1962Raghav Rangayya, famous Hindi poet, story writer and novelist, died.
2/20/1993Government decides to form an Autonomous Council for the tribals within Assam to solve Bodo issue.
2/6/1996Supreme Court upholds election of CPI (M) leader O. Bharathan to Kerala Assembly from Edakkad (91).
4/20/1993Jharkhand Movement suspends its 36-days old economic blockade.
7/20/1991Chithira Tirunal Bala Rama Varma, former Maharaja of Travancore, passed away at the age of 78 years after a brief illness. His term as the descendant of the Chera dynasty saw many progressive reforms in the field of legislation, education and many more. He was hailed as ""Ashoka the second"", and Gandhiji parised him as a ""Historical wonder"".
8/1/1997Lt. Gen. Ved Prakash Malik to be next chief of Army staff. Gen. Shankar Roy Chowdhury retires on September 30.
1/28/1976Erapalli Prasanna takes 8-76 to rip through New Zealand at Eden Park.
1/25/1856Battle of Seattle; skirmish between settlers & Indians.
12/29/1983Gavaskar makes the highest Test Cricket score by an Indian, 236* vs West Indies.
5/25/19415,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India.