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Historical Event on 8/25/1965

Indian troops cross the Kashmir ceasefire line pursuing Pakistani infiltrators.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/1/1997Ordinance promulgated to ban single digit or instant lotteries.
8/28/1906Chintamani Govind (Mama Pendse), great actor, was born.
12/16/1990Dr. M. Channa Reddy resigned as Andhra Pradesh CM.
1/20/1992Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup.
7/27/199511 Cong-I and National Conference activists were gunned down in J&K after they were abducted from their homes.
1/12/1955Pandit Baburao Vishnu Paradkar, eminent Hindi editor and veteran journalist, passed away.
6/5/1984Operation 'Blue Star' was launched by Indira Gandhi. Indian commandos stormed into Sikh's holiest gurudwara Golden Temple in Amritsar to flush out the terrorists and other anti-government elements. Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and over 325 people were killed in the temple. Thus a great rebel arose all over the nation and specially in Punjab.
7/5/1981Rajan Mahadevan recites 31,811 digits of ¦(pie) from memory.
3/18/1948Eknath Dhondu Solkar, cricketer (India 1969-77, brilliant short-leg fielder), was born in Bombay. He is recipient of Arjun Award (1973).
8/12/1952Social Welfare Board inaugurated in the Parliament.