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Historical Event on 8/25/1998

Resurgent India Bonds garner more than 4 billion dollars of which 30\% are from the Middle East, 20\% each from South east Asia, US and Europe.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/24/1966Bombay-New York Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die.
12/23/1993PM announces Local Area Development Scheme by which each MP can sanction projects worth Rs.1 crore.
5/19/2000A `civil coup' in Fiji ousts the first ethnic Indian Prime Minister Mahendra Pal Choudhary. President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara proclaims a state of emergency.
12/16/1952Sri Ramalu Potiu sacrificed his life for the demand of seperate Andhra Pradesh state for the Telugu- speaking people.
5/30/1999India rejects U.N. offer to send a special envoy to defuse Indo-Pak tensions.
2/19/1919Arvind Gokhle, great Marathi story writer, was born.
5/1/199560 killed as Madras-Kanyakumari Express collides with a goods train at Danishpet.
11/7/1995Lukose Leelamma at Pune sets record for 10,000m (Women) in 34.33.50.
8/22/1993The first batch of IAF troops landed in the capital city of Mogadishu.
6/9/199881 persons are killed as cyclone hits the Saurashtra and Kutch regions of Gujarat and Jalore district of Rajasthan. Subsequently, the toll is put at 934 in the Kutch-Saurashtra region alone.