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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
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Babur reached to his capital Agra after winning Bengal. |
| 6/25/1658 |
6th Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb arrested his father Shahjahan and put him in Agra Fort Jail. |
| 6/25/1880 |
Syed Muhammad Zamin Ali, great educationist, poet, editor, professor, writer and founder-member of the Hindustani Academy, was born at Mustafabad village in the Rae Bareli district of U.P. |
| 6/25/1888 |
Lord Louis Mountbatten, British politician, was born. |
| 6/25/1900 |
Louis Mountbatten, last British Voiceroy and first Governor General of independent India, was born at England. |
| 6/25/1908 |
Sucheta Kriplani, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, was born. |
| 6/25/1922 |
Satyendranath Datta, famous Bengali poet, passed away. |
| 6/25/1931 |
Vishwanath Pratapsing, former Prime Minister of India, was born. |
| 6/25/1932 |
India played their first official test match on the ground of Lords against England. |
| 6/25/1943 |
No. 8 Squadron started functioning absorbing the remaining coastal defence flight personnel, and also issued with a vengeance to achieve operational status. |
| 6/25/1945 |
Lord Vevil talk to the Indian political leaders. |
| 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. |
| 6/25/1983 |
India won 'Prudential World Cup' Cricket Championship held in England after defeating West Indies. |
| 6/25/1992 |
BJP bags eleven seats in the biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha, Congress (I) secures seven. |
| 6/25/1993 |
Mahadevan, SBI MD, sacked in the wake of his role in the securities scam. |
| 6/25/1994 |
Bombay's former underworld don Haji Masthan Mirza passed away. |
| 6/25/1994 |
Dinsha Pirosha Madan, Chief Justice of Supreme Court, died. |
| 6/25/1996 |
Sunderlal Bahuguna, noted environmentalist, ends 74-day repentance fast at Rajghat following assurance from PM Deve Gowda. |
| 6/25/1997 |
USA & India sign a new bilateral treaty for the extradition of fugitive offenders. |
| 6/25/1998 |
Sikh high priests exonerate the Akali Dal leader and chief of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, Gurcharan Singh Tohra, of charges of violating a ``Hukumnama'' (religious edict) issued by the Akal Takht, which prescribed a complete boycott of the members of the Nirankari missions for their ''blasphemous'' activities. |
| 6/25/1999 |
PSCB emerged men's and women's champions in the inter-institutional table tennis in Gandhidham. |
| 6/25/2000 |
India lifts the Asia Cup sub-junior hockey championship in Kuala Lumpur. |
| 6/25/2000 |
The Government agrees to the bifurcation of the Telecom Ministry. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/17/1892 | Shri Hanuman Prasad Poddar, social reformer, revolutionary and poet, was born in Shillong. |
| 5/19/1980 | Dr. Ramashankar Shukla 'Rasal', famous writer, passed away. |
| 6/30/1928 | Kalyanji, famous music director, was born. |
| 3/16/1860 | Dr. W.M. Haffkine, great scientist, bacteriologist and professor, was born at Odessa in Russia. |
| 3/29/1982 | Delhi (707) beat Karnataka (705) on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy. |
| 4/12/1871 | Gangadhar Balkrishna Deshpande, editor in modern era and dictionary creator, was born. |
| 10/30/1996 | Pop star Michael Jackson arrives in Bombay. |
| 2/21/1991 | The President accepts the resignation of 5 cabinet members who were disqualified by the Speaker as per the anti-defection law. |
| 12/6/1997 | Space shuttle Columbia's astronauts return to earth following a two-week science mission on an enquiry awaiting them because of botched satellite release. Columbia and its crew of six, including India-born Kalpana Chawla, swooped through a clear chilly sky and landed on runway at Kennedy Space Centre. Astronauts save runaway $10-million satellite by catching it with their hands. |
| 5/9/1919 | Ram Kumar Gupta, great industrialist, was born at Delhi. |
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