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Historical Event on 2/25/1993

Kranti Renadev, a naxalite under trial in Andhra, freed.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/9/1979Janardhan Gnanoba Navle, cricketer, 2 Tests for India as WK and 1 catch, passed away.
6/23/1953Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, great social reformer, politician, national leader and founder of JanSangh Party, died at Srinagar while in detention.
3/16/1877Nanalal Dalpatram Kavi, famous poet, Gujarati litterateur and Headmaster, was born.
10/24/1997Kerala bans ragging in educational institutions by an ordinance.
6/20/1756A group of British soldiers along with Halvel were imprisoned by some rebellions in a suffocating cell that gained notoriety as the ""Black Hole of Calcutta."" Most of them died here.
11/7/2000The BJP firebrand Uma Bharti makes a triumphant return to the Union Ministry as Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs and Arun Jaitley gets elevated as Cabinet Minister in a mini expansion. Maj.Gen. (Retd) B. C. Khanduri takes oath as Minister of State for Transport and Highways.
2/1/1942No. 4 Squadron of the IAF was born in the war at Peshawar. The Squadron was first equipped with Lysander aircraft. The Second World War was in its third year and Japanese forces were advancing towards India's eastern frontiers.
2/8/1995Mulayam Singh wins the crucial vote of strength.
10/9/1945British troops occupy Andaman in Gulf of Bengal.
8/30/1979Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'.