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Historical Event on 8/25/1959
Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister, declares in New Delhi that India will defend Bhutan and Sikkim if attacked by China.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/5/1927 | Lord Irwin, Viceroy of India, met Gandhiji, S.Shriniwas Iyengar and M.A. Ansari Congress leaders at New Delhi. |
| 12/28/1688 | Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb demolishes all temples (around 1,000) in Mathura. (During their reign, Muslim rulers had destroyed roughly 60,000 Hindu temples throughout India, constructing mosques on 3,000 sites). |
| 8/17/1996 | CBI seizes another Rs. 65 lakhs from Sukh Ram's residence. |
| 4/15/1927 | Abha Gandhi, servant to Gandhi, was born. |
| 5/30/1950 | Devdutta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar, great historian and archaeologist, passed away. |
| 7/10/1964 | Bangalore University was established in Karnataka. |
| 3/25/1997 | Justice Jagdish Saran Verma sworn in Chief Justice of India. |
| 2/28/1997 | Finance Minister P. Chidambaram presents an action-packed budget for 1997-98. |
| 1/10/1993 | India asks Pakistan to reduce its diplomatic strength by 40. |
| 11/17/1925 | Jemini Ganesh, film actor, was born. |
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