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Historical Event on 5/25/1915

Mahatma Gandhi established Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/1/1947Partition of India into India and Pakistan. Power transferred. Lord Mountbatten becomes Governor General of India and Muhammed Ali Jinnah, Governor General of Pakistan.
1/19/1995Prof. Armaity Desai, eminent Sociologist, appointed the new UGC Chairperson.
12/22/1887Srinivas Ramanujam, India's greatest mathematician, was born at Erode in Tamil Nadu.
5/22/1996Ravi Shastri appointed UNICEF's national ambassador for children.
2/4/1948Rakeshchandra Satchidananda Shukla, cricket leg-spinner (1 Test India v Sri Lanka 1982), was born in Kanpur.
4/7/1997NAM foreign ministers two-day conference begins in New Delhi.
8/9/1965Pakistan chose to persist while the Indian Army Corps on the ceasefire line got down to neutralizing the Gibraltar Force. As a first step, main infiltration routes were blocked and Pakistan was forced out of the Haji Fir bulge (known to them as Bedori).
3/3/1924Mustafa Kamal Attaturk abolished the caliphate and established a nationalist government and thus Khilafat Movement ended without achieving its aim.
5/1/1940Marathi magzine `Digdarshan' was published.
1/20/1990Dr. Raja Ramanna sworn in Minister of State for Defence.