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Historical Event on 2/25/1977

Second satellite Earth Station established at Dehradun.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/8/1893Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu, great musician and professor, was born in Bangalore.
11/24/1973E. V. Ramasami Naicker (EVR), founder leader of Dravida Kazhagam, passed away at the age of 94.
10/3/1996Second phase of UP polling.
4/15/1996Shyam Benegal's film ""The Making of a Mahatma"" released in South Africa.
8/30/2000A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, announced a package for small units raising the ceiling on loans from Rs. 10 lakhs to Rs. 25 lakhs. For the handloom sector, a separate scheme costing Rs. 447 crores was also finalised.
1/31/1992The Securities and Exchange Board of India given statutory power as an autonomous body.
1/1/1920P.M. Nadagouda, politician, was born at Mysore, Chitwadgi.
2/1/1835East India company obtained Darjeeling from the King of Sikkim.
11/2/1972ICMR set up a chain of regional centres of National Nutrition Monitoring and 500 Indians seize Washington Bureaux in different parts of India.
12/3/19843,000 people died and more than 50,000 people were badly affected when they inhaled poisonous toxic gas emission from the Union Carbide plant. This event is better known as ""the Bhopal Gas Tragedy"", the biggest industrial disaster that occured in India.