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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 |
| 9/8/1990 | Mother Teresa re-elected head of Missionaries of Charity. |
| 1/11/1966 | Lal Bahadur Shastri was posthumously awarded the ""Bharat Ratna"". |
| 1/7/1956 | Vinoo Mankad scores 231 vs New Zealand, 413 opening stand with Roy. |
| 1/15/1949 | General K. N. Kariappa became the first Indian Commander-in-Chief. He was the first Indian to reach to this post in Indian Army. In 1956, he was designated as Chief of the Army Staff - General, later Field Marshal. This event is commemoratively observed as Army Day. |
| 12/26/1904 | First cross-country motor car race inaugurated between Dehli and Bombay started its rally. It was organised by Motor Union of Western India. |
| 12/15/1991 | Satyajit Ray, film maestro, awarded Special Oscar for his lifetime achievement. |
| 12/15/1991 | Saint Narhari Sonar, a poet-saint of the Varkari smanaj and goldsmith (sonar) from Maharashtra had taken Samadhi. His transition from a staunch Shaiva to a Vithoba-worshipping Varkari, after a miracle that makes him realize that Vithoba and Shiva are one and the same. |
| 4/19/1910 | Anant Laxman Kanhere, revolutionary, was hanged. |
| 10/31/1990 | Hindus flee Muslim prorsecution in Kashmir Valley. |
| 6/12/1990 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1D) launched. This is an operational multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite. It is still in service. It was launched by US Delta launch vehicle, Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, USA. |
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