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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 |
| 1/8/1906 | Howrah Railway Station, Calcutta, was inaugurated. |
| 8/11/1993 | Brahmaprakash Chaudhary, first Chief Minister of Delhi and former central minister, died. |
| 1/25/1995 | India and South Africa sign three pacts to forge special ties. |
| 8/17/1916 | Amritlal Naagar was born. |
| 3/4/1858 | J. P. Walker, British Officer, along with 200 prisoners who were mainly from the Indian Sepoy Mutiny, sailed from Calcutta to start a new settlement in the Andaman Islands. |
| 9/26/1996 | Deve Gowda, PM, takes oath as Rajya Sabha member. He was the first PM to enter parliament through RS. Indira Gandhi was already a RS member when elected leader in 1966. |
| 6/23/1810 | Duncan Dock of Bombay was completed. |
| 7/12/1932 | The 16,000-foot Shyok ice dam in the Himalayas bursts flooding the Indus Valley at Kashmir. |
| 10/13/1978 | Maharashtra branch of Forward Block Party merged in Indira Congress. |
| 10/9/1987 | Official Languages Rules, 1976 amended. |
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