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Historical Event on 12/1/1985

Rajiv Gandhi concludes the first official visit to Japan by an Indian Prime Minister at Tokyo.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/10/1963The Kamraj Plan.
7/16/1996Supreme Court says dowry demand even during marriage talks is an offence.
6/19/1947Salman Rushdie, English writer, was born in Bombay.
5/23/1997The body of controversial former chief of Tarn Taran district police Ajit Singh Sandhu is recovered from rail tracks near Bhakharpur About 30 km from Chandigarh.
3/18/1896Pandit Kunjilal Dubey, freedom fighter, educationalist and politician, was born at Amgaon, District Narsinghpur.
8/11/1993Brahmaprakash Chaudhary, first Chief Minister of Delhi and former central minister, died.
12/28/1931The second round of a British-Indian conference on the political future of India collapsed in disagreement over demands by Indian nationalists for complete independence. The British government had seemed willing to grant a limited dominion status. But Mahatma Gandhi, who had come to the conference to present the demands of the All-India Nationalist Congress, refused to accept anything less than complete independence. The breakdown of the talks set off a new round of disorders, Gandhi was greeted by rioting in the streets of Bombay between upper-caste Hindu members of the Congress party and ""untouchable"" caste members who had turned against him.
8/30/1990Parliament unanimously passes the Prasar Bharati Bill.
1/5/1955Kumari Mamata Promileswar Banerjee was born in Calcutta (West Bengal).
3/4/1990Sunderlal Patwa (BJP) and D. Ramachandran (DMK) named CM's of Madhya Pradesh and Pondicherry respectively.