25th July – What Happened Today In History?

What Happened Today In History?

Find out what happened on 25th July in History. There are a lot many happenings which had taken place on this date in the pages of Indian History, here we have listed some of the very important events occurred on 25th July.
Famous Birthdays in History on this day:

Raageshwari Loomba (born 25 July 1977) is an Indian pop singer, actress, model, television anchor, former MTV and Chanel V VJ a Yoga expert and a motivational speaker. She also entered in the fifth season of the reality television show Bigg Boss and was named ‘Positive Raaga and the messenger of peace’. Raageshwari was born in Mumbai to Trilok Singh Loomba.
Roopak Saluja is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Bang Bang Films and its content-for-brands is, Jack in the Box Worldwide. Roopak Saluja was born on July 25, 1975, to a Sikh father and a Nepalese mother. He did his schooling at the Doon School in Dehradun, India. He started his advertising career at 23, in account management, at Young & Rubicam Budapest.
Abdullah Abu Sayeed born 25 July 1940) is a Bangladeshi writer, television presenter, organizer and activist. Sayeed was born in 1940 in Calcutta. His father was Azimuddin Ahmed, a teacher. Sayeed passed SSC exam from Pabna Zilla School in 1955 and HSC exam from Profollo Chandra College in 1957. He later earned the degree of BA and MA in Bengali.
Shailendra Kumar (born 25 July 1960) is an Indian politician belonging to the Samajwadi Party. He is the current member of Lok Sabha from the Chail constituency in Uttar Pradesh. He has been a Member of Legislative Assembly twice and a member of parliament thrice .

Death anniversaries on 25th July:

Phoolan Devi (10 August 1963 – 25 July 2001), popularly known as the “Bandit Queen”, was an Indian dacoit (bandit) and later a politician. After being gang-raped by some upper-caste members of her village, Phoolan Devi turned bandit, and authorised the killing of 22 upper-caste villagers in 1981. Following this, she became notorious across India as a bandit.
Arun Nehru (born April 24, 1944, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh) is an Indian politician and columnist. He was member of 9th Lok Sabha from Bilhaur as a Janata Dal leader. Earlier, he was member of 7th and 8th Lok Sabha from Rae Bareli on an Indian National Congress ticket.
M. Alagappa Manickavelu Naicker (December 14, 1896 – July 25, 1996) or simply, M. A. Manickavelu was an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress. He served as the Minister of Revenue for the Madras state from 1953 to 1962. He also served as a member of the Rajya Sabha from 1962 to 1964.
V. S. Krishna Iyer (7 January 1922 – 25 July 2011) was an Indian politician and independence movement activist from the state of Karnataka. He had served as a Member of Parliament of 8th Lok Sabha for Bangalore South from 1984 to 1989. Krishna also served as mayor of Bangalore and Minister in the state cabinet before being elected to Lok Sabha, the lower house of Indian Parliament from Bangalore.

Notable Events:
1813 – First boat race started at Calcutta on the Hooghly river where seven sailing boats had competed.
1929 – Somnath Chatterjee, politician and lawyer, was born.
1938 – Gautam Kalicharan, famous Hindi poet, was born.