| 25-March-1609 | Henry Hudson embarks on an exploration for Dutch East India Co. at Pulicat. |
| 25-March-1898 | Swami Vivekanand accepted Sister Nivedita as his disciple. |
| 25-March-1898 | Dalpatrai (Dalpatram Dahyabhai Trawadi), modern Gujrati poet, passed away. |
| 25-March-1905 | Mirza Rasid Ali Baig, famous Indian politician, was born. |
| 25-March-1911 | L. D. Swamikannu publishes ""Manual of Indian Chronology"" in Bom |
| 25-March-1916 | S. M. Pandit, famous painter, was born. |
| 25-March-1920 | Sardar Sambhaji Chandrojirao Angre, politician and farmer, was born. |
| 25-March-1927 | Leslie Claudius, India field hockey (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56), was born. |
| 25-March-1928 | S. R. Kulkarni, leader of dock workers, was born. |
| 25-March-1931 | 50 killed in riots in India; Gandhi assaulted. |
| 25-March-1931 | Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi matyred in Hindu-Muslim riot at Kanpur. He was also the Editor of weekly 'Pratap'. |
| 25-March-1933 | Vasantrao Gowarikar, space scientist, was born. |
| 25-March-1954 | The first helicopter S-55 arrived ferried to Delhi. The Indian Air Force experience with rotary wing aircraft. It was indeed a 'red letter day' in the history of IAF a befitting gift on its coming of age ' when the first helicopter wearing IAF markings appeared at Palam in the form of a Sikorsky, S-55. Such a swift action, complete involvement and dedication on the part of the crew and technicians was the clear indication of the standards with which One-O-Four set about its tasks for others to emulate. |
| 25-March-1958 | Yograjsingh Bhagsingh Bhundel, cricketer (Indian pace bowler early 80's), was born in Chandigarh. |
| 25-March-1963 | Yagyawalk Bharadwaj, famous botany scientist, passed away. |
| 25-March-1971 | Aashish Rakesh Kapoor, cricketer (Indian off-spin batsman 1994- ), was born in Madras. |
| 25-March-1983 | Modern oceanographic research ship of the world 'Sagar Kanya' landed first time in the sea. |
| 25-March-1983 | Chalpati Rao, great journalist, passed away. |
| 25-March-1987 | Marxist-led alliance gets majority in Kerala and West Bengal elections . |
| 25-March-1989 | India's first super-computer X-MP-14 of US make was dedicated to the nation. |
| 25-March-1990 | Lakshadweep Council elections. |
| 25-March-1991 | 1991 census report released; India has 844 million people. |
| 25-March-1994 | Buta Singh exonerated by the Akal Takht after 9 years. |
| 25-March-1996 | 31st Gyanpith award presented to M.T. Vasudevan Nair at Trivandrum by Dr. Karan Singh. |
| 25-March-1996 | CBI gives a clean chit to PM Rao in the St. Kitts case. |
| 25-March-1997 | Justice Jagdish Saran Verma sworn in Chief Justice of India. |
| 25-March-1998 | Yashwant Sinha, Finance Minister, and Railway Minister Nitish Kumar present the interim budgets for 1998- 99. |
| 25-March-1999 | Arathi Ponnappa,Former National tennis champion, called it quits from competitive tennis in Bangalore. |
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