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October 25

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  1. 2003 CEHindu · died

    Pandurang Shastri Athavale, founder of the Swadhyaya self-study movement and a Templeton Prize laureate, died on this day in 2003.

  2. 1671 CEScience · discovered

    On 25 October 1671 Giovanni Cassini discovered Iapetus, a moon of Saturn, the first of four Saturnian moons he would find and one whose two-toned surface he correctly explained.

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