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Historical Event on 12/26/1989

India debars Bofors from future contracts until they come out clean.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/18/1803Puri was captured by Britishers from the Marathas without any struggle.
4/12/1912Kirpal Singh Narang, social reformer and educationist, was born at Amritsar (Punjab).
2/3/1992Kapil Dev becomes the second highest wicket-taker in Test Cricket when he took his 400th wicket, that of Mark Taylor, in the Perth Test (New Zealand's Richard Hadlee with 431 wickets being the first).
11/8/1960Subroto Mukherjee died while having dinner in Tokyo, where he had gone with the Air India International Airlines which made its first inaugural flight to the city of Tokyo, Japan.
11/29/1989Rajiv Gandhi resigned from the post of Prime Minister of India.
9/4/1996Narasimha Rao questioned by CBI.
9/19/1995PM leaves for a 5-day visit to the two Central Asian republics of Turkmenistan and Kyrghistan.
3/27/1767Khanderao Holkar, one of the Generals in Peshwa kingdom, passed away.
3/4/1995Kakrapar nuclear power station's second unit located near Surat synchronised to the western grid after mandatory tests.
12/23/1993PM announces Local Area Development Scheme by which each MP can sanction projects worth Rs.1 crore.