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Historical Event on 2/25/1999
The curtains came down on the fifth National Games. Manipur won the overall championship while swimmers Nisha Millet of Karnataka and Sebastian Xavier of Kerala were adjudged the best sportswoman and sportsman respectively.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/21/1953 | Tillaya Dam and Bokaro Power Station opened by the PM. |
| 9/19/1960 | Sindhu River water-sharing settement was signed between India and Pakistan. |
| 9/22/1687 | Aurangzeb ended Kutubshah kingdom. |
| 1/11/1966 | Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian Prime Minister (1964-66), passed away at Tashkent, U.S.S.R. at 1:32, age 61. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously. |
| 5/9/1998 | Kirit Raval is appointed Solicitor-General of India. |
| 9/27/1974 | Pankaj Dharmani, Indian ODI batsman (1997), was born. |
| 1/1/1985 | Doordarshan starts Malayalam telecast from Trivandrum. |
| 4/12/1976 | India set 403 to win against the West Indies. |
| 2/1/1901 | Six language penel were started on the Rs. five dinomination. These notes were single sided and the back side could be used for accounting purposes. The six languages were Urdu, Bengali, Telugu, Kaithi, Kannada and Tamil. The paper used for printing was white hand made and moulded. |
| 9/9/1947 | Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, great philosopher, linguist, art historian, painter and critic, died at Needham, Boston. |
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