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Historical Event on 7/25/1813

First boat race started at Calcutta on the Hooghly river where seven sailing boats had competed.

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3/19/1998E.M.S. Namboodiripad, veteran communist leader of CPM and Kerala's first Chief Minister, passed away in Thiruvananthapuram at the age of 88.
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12/22/1999The Government says there is no hidden agenda behind the US lifting of curbs.
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4/27/1878Calcutta University started Women's Education, and allowed women to appear in the Entrance Examination.
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