December25

Suraj Mal Jat, Maharaja of Bharatpur, was killed by Najib-ud -Daulah s troops.

Japanese bombers raid Chittagong.

Indian Aeroplane Jumbo 747 was hijacked and taken over to Rome.

An Indian Airlines aircraft with 187 passengers on board is hijacked. The plane was going from Katmandu to New Delhi. It lands near Abu Dhabi after several hops.

Gandhiji said, at Noakhali, "I am being tested through and through".

Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, freedom fighter and founder of Banaras Hindu University, was born at Allahabad.

Mohamad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, was born.

Sadhu T.L. Vaswani (1879-1966), altruistic Sindhi poet and servant of God, who found several Hindu missions in India and seven Mira Educational Institutions in his lifetime, was born.

Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari, a nationalist Muslim leader, politician and journalist, was born at Yusufpur in Uttar Pradesh.

Pandurangi Kodanda Rao, journalist, Hindi writer and social worker, was born in Visakhapatnam, A.P.

Naushad, famous film music director, was born.

Atal Krishna Behari Bajpayee, Prime Minister of India and a veteran journalist, was born at Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh.

Pitambar Datt Kaushika, great educationist, was born at Bulandshahar.

Ismail Merchant, producer (Householder), was born in Bombay, India.

Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, great revolutionary freedom fighter, social worker, eminent litterateur, first Indian Governor General and the founder President of Swatantra Party, passed away.

Dharmavir Bharti, journalist and editor of Dharmyug, was born. His famous books are "Gunahon Ka Devta" and "Suraj Ka Satwa Ghoda".

Mass boycott greets the Prince of Wales when he arrives in Calcutta.

A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, launches a Rs.60,000 crore ''Gram Sadak Yojana'' for linking all villages and the "Antyodaya Anna Scheme'' for providing cheap foodgrains under the TPDS.

Shah Alam II sat on the Throne of Dehli. Marathas captured Delhi and induced Shah Alam to return to Delhi after an absence of 18 years from the captial.

Anil Kaul, Canadian badminton player (Olympics-96), was born in Amritsar, India.

India all out for 163 at Madras vs Australia, Ashley Mallett takes 5-91.

Opening day of Fourth Test Cricket, India 8-112 v Pakistan at Kanpur.

India-Sri Lanka one-day cricket match at Indore abandoned after three overs owing to a bad state of the pitch, which was a rare occurance.

Swati Tirunal Ramavarma passed away.

Dr. Hari Singh Gour, famous law expert, great social reformer, jurist, leader and educationist, passed away.

Manvendranath Roy, great patriot, died.

Indian Ocean hurricane kills 4,000 in Ceylon, 3,000 in Indian province of Madras.

Giani Zail Singh, former President of India, died in Chandigarh at the age of 78.

Ajit Singh expelled from the JD.