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Historical Event on 12/26/1985
Rajiv Gandhi and Pakistan President Zia-ul-Haq meet in Delhi and agree not to attack nuclear plants in each other's country.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/11/1888 | Asaf Ali, lawyer, nationalist, writer and connoisseur of music and arts, was born. |
| 11/7/1893 | Constantly Lievens, Flemish missionaries in India, passed away at the age of 37. |
| 1/22/1993 | A Patna-Lucknow-Delhi IA flight IC-810 was hijacked by a certain Satish Chandra Pandey shortly after take-off. |
| 9/10/1623 | Shah Jahan entered Rajputana and raided Amber crossing the Tapti. He arrived near the kingdom of Golconda and from there passed on to Orissa which was surrendered to him. |
| 12/4/1829 | Britain abolished ""sati"" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre) |
| 11/11/1998 | India objects to Washington's discrimination in easing sanctions against New Delhi and Islamabad, clamped in the wake of the nuclear tests by the two countries. |
| 4/2/1980 | Raj Narain expelled from Lok Dal forms Janata (S) Party. |
| 6/23/1980 | Sanjay Gandhi, great Indian politician and younger son of Indira Gandhi, died in a plane crash. He was recently appointed as the General Secretary of the AICC (I). |
| 2/4/1910 | New Press Censorship bill announced; govt. say repressive measures necessary to halt unrest. |
| 8/7/1999 | A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, appeals to the United States to name Pakistan as a terrorist state. |
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