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Historical Event on 11/25/1890

Radheshyam, famous stage, film actor and director, was born.

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11/29/2000India strikes a counter-trade oil deal with Iraq as part of an effort to build a strategic relationship with Baghdad.
4/27/1854First telegram was sent between Mumbai and Pune.
5/11/1985Booby (Doll) trap bomb kills 86 people in India.
2/28/1930Sir Chandrasekhar V. Raman, Scientist, 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering ""Raman Effect"". He is also the first Indian to receive this honor in Physics, The Indian Nobel Laureates.
5/14/1954President issues an order extending application of Indian Constitution to Kashmir with the concurrence of the State government.
1/29/1983Piloo Mody, veteran Parliament member and senior leader of Janata Party, passed away.
1/27/1904R. P. Kanitkar, veteran writer, nationalist, journalist and editor, was born.
5/3/1913Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, more generally known as Dada Saheb Phalke, was responsible for the production of India's first fully indigenous silent four-reel feature film 'Raja Harishchandra' which heralded the birth of the Indian film industry. The film had titles in Hindi and English and was released on May 3, 1913 at the Coronation Cinematograph in Bombay.
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