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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
7/26/1844Gooroodas Banerjee was born in Calcutta. He was a Judge of Calcutta High Court.
4/10/1997Announcement of UP's 70th new district to be re-named after Jyotiba Phule.
4/22/1930Civil Disobedience at Dandi, 6th April 1930 and Civil Disobedience at Bombay, 7th April 1930, both documentary films produced by Krishna Film Co., Bombay, were prohibited by Censor Board on April 22, on the grounds that they were calculated to foster resistance to Government and to promote a breach of Law and Order.
4/2/1954Nehru calls for a halt to the build up of nuclear weapons.
3/23/1982Annasaheb Patil, father of Maratha Mahasangh, passed away.
5/11/1991Naxalities in Andhra abduct P. Sudhir Kumar, son of the former Union Minister Shiv Shankar.
12/9/1873Lord Northbrook, Viceroy and Governor General of India laid the foundation stone of the building.
9/11/1893Swami Vivekananda represented Hinduism at Chicago's Parliament of the World's Religions, the first ever inter-faith gathering, dramatically enlightening Western opinion to the depth of Hindu philosophy and culture. He spoke for the first time in Chicago.
6/25/16586th Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb arrested his father Shahjahan and put him in Agra Fort Jail.
8/18/1900Vijayalakshmi Pandit, first woman President of U.N.O. General Assembly, was born.