Date: 25-Jan-2022

THOUGHT OF THE DAY 

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success".
---Edward Everett Hale

 

Events that took place on this day in history 25 January

*In 1971,
Himachal Pradesh was established in 1948 as a Chief Commissioner's Province within the Union of India. The Himachal History The province comprised the hill districts around Shimla and southern hill areas of the former Punjab region. Himachal became a part C state on 26 January 1951 with the implementation of the Constitution of India. Himachal Pradesh became a Union Territory on 1 November 1956. On 18 December 1970 the State of Himachal Pradesh Act was passed by Parliament and the new state came into being on 25 January 1971. Thus Himachal emerged as the eighteenth state of the Indian Union.

*In 1983,
Acharya Vinobha Bhave,was an Indian advocate of nonviolence and human rights. Often called Acharya (Sanskrit for teacher), he is best known for the Bhoodan Movement. He is considered a National Teacher of India and the spiritual successor of Mahatma Gandhi. He was an eminent philosopher. The Gita has also been translated into Marathi language by him with the name as Geetai means Mother Geeta.

 

Famous people that have birthdays on this day in history 25 January

*In 1824,
Michael Madhusudan Dutt, popular 19th-century Bengali poet and dramatist.
Dutta wrote exclusively in English in his early writing years. The Captive Ladie was published in 1849 and, like Derozio's The Fakeer of Jungheera, is a long narrative poem in which it is difficult to sustain one's interest. In The Anglo-Saxon and the Hindu (1854), an essay in florid, even purple, prose, are references to and quotations from almost the whole of Macaulay's shelf of European books. He was greatly influenced by the works of William Wordsworth and John Milton. Dutta was a spirited bohemian and Romantic.

*In 1988,
Cheteshwar Pujara, 
an Indian international cricketer who plays Test cricket for India and represents Saurashtra in domestic cricket. He is a right-handed batsman who made his first-class debut for Saurashtra in December 2005 and made his Test debut at Bangalore in October 2010. As of May 9th 2021, he is ranked as the world No.14 Test batsman, according to the ICC Player Rankings with a tally of 697 points. He also played 5 ODI matches for India and was a part of the IPL 2021 winning team Chennai Super Kings.

 

Famous people that have death anniversaries on this day in history 25 January

*In 1986,
S.D. Narang, director and producer, known for Dilli Ka Thug (1958), Sagaai (1966) and Do Thug (1975).Satya Dev Narang was a multi-dimensional personality, who contributed to Indian cinema as a leading man, producer, director, writer, lyricist and studio owner having operated from Lahore, Kolkata, and Mumbai. He was born on 18 June 1918, in Lyallpur (now Faisalabad, Pakistan).