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Historical Event on 5/25/1997
In a bid to break the deadlock on naming transport corporation after caste leaders in southern districts, Tamil Nadu Government agrees to create a new bus corporation named after Pulithevan.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/31/1958 | First Earth Satellite Explorer I was launched from Cape Kennedy. |
| 5/13/1953 | The first Indian Navy air station INS Garuda was commissioned at Venduruthy, the naval base in Cochin. |
| 2/19/1956 | Acharya Narendra Dev, the veteran freedom fighter, revolutionary, thinker and Chairman of PSP, passed away. |
| 8/15/1947 | Lord Louis Mountbatten took charge as the first British Governor General of Indian Union and occupied this office till June 20, 1948. |
| 2/25/1982 | J. K. Irani, cricket wicketkeeper (2 Tests for India 1947-48), passed away. |
| 12/29/1938 | Mahavir Prasad Dvivedi, famous litterateur, writer, poet and editor, died at the age of 74. |
| 4/18/1904 | Ramnath Goenka, president and founder of Indian Express Group, was born. |
| 6/2/2000 | Justice A. M. Ahmadi, former Chief Justice of India, appointed Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award. |
| 1/2/1932 | Sant Harchand Singh Longowal, famous Ragi and reluctant politician, was born in Sangrur's backward Gadarhiani village. |
| 4/10/1760 | Gerard George Clifford, head of East-Indian Company, passed away at the age of 75. |
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