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Historical Event on 3/25/1983

Chalpati Rao, great journalist, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/25/1844Girishchandra Ghosh, famous Bengali actor and dramatist, was born.
12/26/1801Supreme Courts had Bengal and Madras by the charter.
2/28/1997The samadhi of Morarji Desai - Abhay Ghat - near Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad to be converted to a national monument, this was decided on Feburary 11.
8/16/1991Indian Airliner Boeing 737 crashes in Manipur's Churachandpur district killing all 69 aboard.
8/1/1988Air Chief Marshal Surinder Kumar Mehra PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/July/1991.
12/22/1992Lok Sabha adopts the constitution amendment bills regarding Panchayati Raj and Nagarapalika Bills, and decentralisation of power to the village level.
12/4/1999Uman J. Shah is sworn in West Bengal Governor.
11/6/1996India wins Titan's cup beating South Africa in Mumbai.
2/14/1929Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.
3/9/1998Vishwanathan Anand,Chess legend, wins the Super Grand Master Title.