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Historical Event on 7/25/1977

B. D. Jathi retired from the post of second acting President.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/20/1977General Election (6th) of India ends. First time Indian National Congress Party lost in India.
1/8/1992Luggage rate of railway passengers hiked by 30 per cent.
7/25/1997Kocheril Raman Narayanan (K. R. Narayanan) became the 10th President of India.
3/4/1990Sunderlal Patwa (BJP) and D. Ramachandran (DMK) named CM's of Madhya Pradesh and Pondicherry respectively.
10/2/1994Gandhi Peace Prize instituted on the lines of Nobel Peace Prize on the great leader's 125th birth anniversary.
3/10/1873Maulana Shaukat Ali, freedom fighter, nationalist and Muslim politician, was born.
3/3/1939Gandhiji commences ""fast unto death"" at Rajkot to protest state's autocratic rule at Bombay and to secure ruler's adherence of promise given towards reform administration, and ends it on March 7 on Viceroy's intervention.
8/3/1996Leander Paes wins a bronze (tennis) at Atlanta, bringing India an Olympic medal after a gap of 16 years.
10/18/1879Branch of 'Theosophical Panth' established in India.
11/11/1793English pioneer missionary William Carey, 32, reached Calcutta five months after setting sail for India. Later, Carey founded the Baptist Missionary Society, the first of the British Protestant missions agencies.