On This Day
25 February
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1910 Dalai Lama flees Tibet for British India to escape Chinese troops.
- 1970 Mannathu Padmanabhan, social reformer and freedom fighter from the south-western state of Kerala, died at Perunna, Changanassery.
- 2012 The World Health Organization (WHO) removed India from the list of 'polio-endemic' countries.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1815 Napoleon leaves his exile on the island of Elba, returning to France.
- 1836 Samuel Colt patented the first revolving barrel multishot firearm.
- 1932 Austrian immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship.
- 1964 Muhammad Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, became world heavyweight boxing champion for the first time by knocking out Sonny Liston in Miami Beach.
- 1982 The European Court of Human Rights rules corporal punishment in Britain's schools is a violation of the Human Rights Convention.
- 1988 South Korea adopts constitution.
- 2001 Australian cricketer Don Bradman, one of the greatest run scorers in the history of the game and often judged the greatest player of the 20th century, died at the age of 92.
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