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Historical Event on 2/25/1938
Farokh Manekshaw Engineer, great Indian cricket wicket-keeper (1961-75), was born in Bombay.

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7/27/1994	Parliament votes to ban tests for determining the sex of an unborn child, as these tests have resulted in thousands of aborted female fetuses.
11/3/1908	Shreyansprasad Jain, famous industrialist, was born.
11/5/1996	Madhavrao Scindia rejoins Congress.
1/21/1993	Chander Pal at Bangalore sets record for High Jump in 2.17.
1/21/1993	Sher Shah Sur died. He was fatally wounded in an explosion on Kalanjara fort while preparing for an attack. He introduced the new silver rupee-coin ""Rupiya"" based on ratio of 40 copper coin pieces (paisa) per rupee and built several roads including the longest road of India known as Grand Trunk Road (now Natioinal Highway-2).
3/25/1996	CBI gives a clean chit to PM Rao in the St. Kitts case.
1/2/1973	General S. H. F. J. Manekshaw appointed as Field Marshall.
6/8/1998	A Disaster Management Cell (DMC) under the direct command of the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, South Western Air Command, was set up at the Command Operations Room to liaise with the State Government and initiate necessary actions. All aircrafts were evacuated from IAF bases at Jamnagar, Bhuj and Naliya and flown to pre-determined destinations. In this meticulously planned and smoothly executed drill, more than 60 aircrafts (including helicopters) were flown out.
7/21/1984	Terrorists breach Bhakra canal in Punjab.
8/11/1908	Khudiram Bose was hanged on this day in Central Jail at Mujaffarpur, Bihar at the age of 19 years. He along with Prafulla Chaki had planned to bomb the carriage supposed to be carrying Kingsford, unfortunately he was betrayed and was caught and finally was sentenced to death and hanged. This day is observed as ""Martyr's Day"" in memory of the great freedom fighter. Even today the soul stirring songs composed in his honour are sung by Bengali folk-singers.

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Historical Event on 2/25/1938 Farokh Manekshaw Engineer, great Indian cricket wicket-keeper (1961-75), was born in Bombay.

Historical Event on 2/25/1938
Farokh Manekshaw Engineer, great Indian cricket wicket-keeper (1961-75), was born in Bombay.