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Historical Event on 10/25/1999

Fixed term for Lok Sabha, Assemblies is under study, said President K R Narayanan in his address to a joint session of Parliament.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/10/1992All movable and immovable properties of big bull Harshad Mehta, and others involved in the Security scam, attached.
7/3/1760Maratha army, under Sadashiv Rao Bhau and Vishvas Rao, captured Dehli.
3/1/2000Gopichand wins the Indian Oil Servo National badminton championship at Kochi-making it four in a row.
9/17/1899First British troops leave Bombay for South Africa.
1/25/1950The post of the Governor General of India was abolished.
1/25/1950Muhammad Tughluq Shah II passed away at Sindh.
2/1/1917Samar Roy, cricket Test Umpire for 6 tests from 1961-70, was born in Bengal.
11/25/1995Namibian PM Hoge S. Geingob arrives in New Delhi.
3/12/1930Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad to break salt law. This march stretched of 375 km. was covered in 26 days with 78 followers. The whole of India joined the campaign to boycott foreign goods and refused to pay taxes. Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan or Frontier Gandhi started Khudai Kidmatgar movement in the North-West Frontier. The Government went back to its brutal force and about 90,000 people were imprisoned within a year. In Peshawar, the Gharwal regiment refused to shoot a demonstrator. In Nagaland Rani Gaidilita, a 13 year old girl raised the flag against the Britishers and was put into life imprisonment in 1932. Nehru hearing this uttered A day will come when India will remember her and Cherish her. She was released after Independence.
11/9/1993Tamil Nadu Assembly urges the Centre to amend Constitution to retain 69\% reservation for backward classes.