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25 June

🇮🇳 In India

1658 6th Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb arrested his father Shahjahan and put him in Agra Fort Jail.

1932 India played their first official test match on the ground of Lords against England.

1975 President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed signed the declaration of Emergency Rule in India. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi implemented the same very next day.

1983 India cricket team defeated the previously invincible West Indies to claim their first World Cup title.

🌎 Elsewhere

1900 Lord Mountbatten, who was appointed Viceroy of India and oversaw the Partition of British India into India and Pakistan, was born.

1903 George Orwell, English novelist, essayist and critic, was born in India as Eric Arthur Blair. He took his pen name in 1932. His books included Animal Farm (1945) and 1984 (1949), which attacked totalitarianism.

1951 The first commercial color TV program was transmitted by CBS from New York to Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington, DC.

2009 Michael Jackson, American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist, died at 50. Known as the "King of Pop", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century.

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