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Historical Event on 1/1/1985
United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the year as the ""International Youth Year""(IYY) with the theme ""Participation, Development and Peace"".
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/26/1993 | The Centre decides to implement the Mandal Commission recommendation to provide 27\% reservation for the socially and educationally backward classes in the Central Services from 15th June. |
| 5/26/1993 | General Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India. |
| 2/11/1933 | The outcome of the conference was that diarchy in the province was abolished, federal system was established in the center, Sindh was separated from Bombay, communal awards were started by the Prime Minister of Britain Sir Ramsay McDonald and White Paper on Indian reforms was published in 1933. |
| 7/20/1954 | Armistice for Indo-China signed. |
| 11/29/1988 | Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, resigned as Prime Minister of India, a country which had been ruled by his family for all but five of its 42 years of independence. The end of the dynasty came after elections that were both violent and inconclusive, neither Gandhi's Congress party nor the opposition National Front received a clear majority, although the latter had a few more votes. The only real winner was the fundamentalist Hindu party, Bharatiya Janata, which is now the power broker. If the National Front wants to rule, its leader V.P. Singh needs the religious group's support. |
| 4/1/1956 | Companies Act of 1913 was revised and Indian Companies Act of 1956 came into force. |
| 6/25/1994 | Bombay's former underworld don Haji Masthan Mirza passed away. |
| 10/15/1977 | The Congress party denies bid by Indira Gandhi to regain leadership. |
| 9/4/1895 | Siyaramsharan Gupt was born. |
| 6/25/1900 | Louis Mountbatten, last British Voiceroy and first Governor General of independent India, was born at England. |
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