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Historical Event on 8/25/1994

Ramdas Nayak, President of BJP Mumbai and former MLA was assassinated at Chembur, Mumbai. He was 52.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/3/1950India protests U.N. troops' crossing of 38th parallel in New York.
10/2/1972Broadcasting of Mumabi Doordarshan started.
6/17/1913Waman Vasudev Chitle (Bal Chitle), Marathi story writer and editor, was born.
3/15/1993Vinod Kambli scores 227 vs Zimbabwe. This was his second consecutive Test 200.
1/18/1977Morarji Desai and other opposition leaders were released from jail and Lok Sabha was dissolved by the president during the emergency period.
4/7/1986Charles Sobhraj and his associate David Hall were nabbed at Mapusa in Goa.
2/26/1966Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ""Veer Savarkar"", great revolutionary freedom fighter, social reformer, politician and writer, passed away at the ripe old age of 83. He was known for the first person to flee by swimming from Port Blair Jail and was associated with right-wing Hindu Mahasabha, started the Abinav Bharat as a secret society of revolutionary terrorists. He was a great Novelist and Poet.
8/23/1995First ever cellular phone service begins in Calcutta.
7/6/1955Marshall Tito and Nehru's joint declaration in Belgrade.
5/18/1985Dr. P. C. Alexander appointed High Commissioner in Britain.