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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
| 06/25/1529 |
Babur reached to his capital Agra after winning Bengal. |
| 06/25/1658 |
6th Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb arrested his father Shahjahan and put him in Agra Fort Jail. |
| 06/25/1880 |
Syed Muhammad Zamin Ali, great educationist, poet, editor, professor, writer and founder-member of the Hindustani Academy, was born at Mustafabad village in the Rae Bareli district of U.P. |
| 06/25/1888 |
Lord Louis Mountbatten, British politician, was born. |
| 06/25/1900 |
Louis Mountbatten, last British Voiceroy and first Governor General of independent India, was born at England. |
| 06/25/1908 |
Sucheta Kriplani, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, was born. |
| 06/25/1922 |
Satyendranath Datta, famous Bengali poet, passed away. |
| 06/25/1931 |
Vishwanath Pratapsing, former Prime Minister of India, was born. |
| 06/25/1932 |
India played their first official test match on the ground of Lords against England. |
| 06/25/1943 |
No. 8 Squadron started functioning absorbing the remaining coastal defence flight personnel, and also issued with a vengeance to achieve operational status. |
| 06/25/1945 |
Lord Vevil talk to the Indian political leaders. |
| 06/25/1975 |
President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed signed the declaration of Emergency Rule in India. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi implemented the same very next day. |
| 06/25/1983 |
India won 'Prudential World Cup' Cricket Championship held in England after defeating West Indies. |
| 06/25/1992 |
BJP bags eleven seats in the biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha, Congress (I) secures seven. |
| 06/25/1993 |
Mahadevan, SBI MD, sacked in the wake of his role in the securities scam. |
| 06/25/1994 |
Bombay's former underworld don Haji Masthan Mirza passed away. |
| 06/25/1994 |
Dinsha Pirosha Madan, Chief Justice of Supreme Court, died. |
| 06/25/1996 |
Sunderlal Bahuguna, noted environmentalist, ends 74-day repentance fast at Rajghat following assurance from PM Deve Gowda. |
| 06/25/1997 |
USA & India sign a new bilateral treaty for the extradition of fugitive offenders. |
| 06/25/1998 |
Sikh high priests exonerate the Akali Dal leader and chief of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, Gurcharan Singh Tohra, of charges of violating a ``Hukumnama'' (religious edict) issued by the Akal Takht, which prescribed a complete boycott of the members of the Nirankari missions for their ''blasphemous'' activities. |
| 06/25/1999 |
PSCB emerged men's and women's champions in the inter-institutional table tennis in Gandhidham. |
| 06/25/2000 |
India lifts the Asia Cup sub-junior hockey championship in Kuala Lumpur. |
| 06/25/2000 |
The Government agrees to the bifurcation of the Telecom Ministry. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 03/23/1992 | G. S. Dhillon, former speaker of Lok Sabha, passed away. |
| 04/13/1919 | Jallianwala Baug massacre. The great Indian tragedy occured in Amritsar which claimed 389 lives and wounded 1,516 activitists fighting for Indian independence. Early in 1919, the Rowlatt Act (Black Act) was passed. This authorized the Government to imprison any person without any trial and conviction in a court of law. This furious act was under the guidence of cruel Brigedier General R. E. H. Dyer and his 50 men troop. Michael O' Dwyer was then the Governor of Punjab who naturally defended the action. This day is observed as Jallianwala Baug Day. |
| 08/10/1901 | Narayan Pillai Gopala Pillai, great poet and educationist, was born in Quilon, Kerala. |
| 01/09/1918 | Harprasad Nanda, famous Industrialist, was born. |
| 10/29/1929 | Vyankat Chalaiyya Manipalli Narayan Chalaiyya, Chief Justice of Supreme Court, was born. |
| 12/08/1942 | Hemant Shamsunder Kanitkar, cricketer (batted in two Tests India v WI 1974), was born in Amravati, Maharashtra. |
| 12/21/1999 | Kushabhau Thakre, BJP president, said that Ayodhya issue was a 'programme' and not an ideology of the party. |
| 09/01/1981 | Air Chief Marshal Dilbagh Singh PVSM, AVSM, VM., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 03/Sept/1984. |
| 09/27/1989 | The second test launching of India's surface-to-surface missile, 'Prithvi', from Sri Harikota was successful. |
| 09/09/1997 | Designated court decides to frame charges against 49 persons, including Shiv Sena Supremo Bal Thackeray, BJP president L. K. Advani and former U.P. Chief Minister Kalyan Singh, in cases relating to Babri Masjid demolition in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992. |
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