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Historical Event on 7/25/2000

P.T. Usha,Star Indian athlete, announces retirement from International athletics at a press conference in New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/2/1996Doordarshan Kendra was inagurated at Port Blair.
7/31/1948State Transport Corporation was established in Calcutta.
10/23/1999A Boeing 707 carrying Venezuela President Hugo Chavez and his entourage lands safely at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai following a suspected tyre burst.
3/10/1993The 12-day-old caretaker ministry in Tripura led by Samir Ranjan Burman resigns.
1/14/1969Madras State renamed Tamil Nadu.
10/1/1932Indian Milatary Academy became functional with Brigadier LP Collins, DSO, OBE as the Commandant. The first course of 40 GCs had on its rolls Sam Manekshaw, Smith Dun and Mohd Musa, later to be Chiefs of the armies of their respective countries, i.e. India, Burma (now Myanmar) and Pakistan. This training was for a period of two and a half years.
8/30/1928Jawaharlal Nehru lays his plans for a free India and becomes president of Congress Party in 1929.
7/24/1994Bodo kills 37 moslems in Bashbari, North Eastern India.
11/15/1989Test debut of Sachin Tendulkar and Waqar Yunus at Karachi.
9/27/1989Hemanta Kumar Mukherjee, noted playback singer and music director, died.