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Historical Event on 1/1/1989
The 4th annual SAARC summit concludes in Islamabad.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/14/1864 | Jagat Narayan, law expert and educationist, was born. |
| 3/31/1959 | Dalai Lama fled China & was granted political asylum in India. |
| 6/7/2000 | Telecom Commission approves the free phone bonanza for all telecom employees announced by the Union Communications Minister Ram Vilas Paswan. |
| 5/13/1962 | Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1884-1963) retired from the post of first President. |
| 10/5/1997 | Kiran Bedi, India's first woman police officer, was awarded the Joseph Beuys prize for her work in reforming the largest prison of the country. |
| 9/17/1929 | La Fontaine, Air Chief Marshal D A La Fontaine PVSM and AVSM, VM, was born in Madras. |
| 7/1/1913 | Vasantrao Phulsing Naik, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra State, was born at Ganuli (Yeotmal). |
| 7/10/1927 | Ganga Ram, great social reformer and founder of Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi, died in England while functioning as an active member of the Royal Commission on Agriculture. He was against dowry and child marriages and advocated widow re-marriage and also established institutions for vocational education and education for adults. |
| 12/9/1658 | Dutch troops occupy harbour city Quilon (Coilan), India. |
| 8/1/1939 | Bombay begins Prohibition, first since U.S. law was repealed. |
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