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Historical Event on 7/24/1985
Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sikh leader Sant Harchand Singh Longowal of Akali Dal signed a peace contract known as 'Punjab Accord' thus ending the four-year agitation in Punjab.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/12/1984 | Rajiv Gandhi elected Congress (I) President. |
| 12/25/1964 | Indian Ocean hurricane kills 4,000 in Ceylon, 3,000 in Indian province of Madras. |
| 11/9/1972 | Laxmi Poruri, guntur India and tennis star (1994 Futures-College Park), was born. |
| 6/9/1957 | General Election ( 2nd) of India ends. |
| 11/30/1989 | Congress (I) emerges largest party in Lok Sabha by winning 193 seats, Congress (I) rule in Karnataka and Veerendra Patil made the Chief Minister. |
| 11/17/1991 | Narasimha Rao, PM, wins by-election in Nandyal with a record margin of 5,80,297 votes. |
| 6/4/1994 | Army successfully test-fires the short range surface-to-surface missile, 'Prithvi'. |
| 11/7/1958 | Nehru said the role of Gen. Mohammed Ayub Khan in Pakistan had increased the 'risk and danger of war' between India and Pakistan. |
| 12/17/1971 | Ceasefire between India & Pakistan in Kashmir and end of Indo-Pak war. |
| 8/15/1947 | Indian Independence Day. |
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