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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 |
| 8/26/1997 | Vice President Krishan Kant takes over as Chairman of Rajya Sabha. |
| 11/18/1999 | Three Lashkar-e-Taiba militants, including its Chief Commander, are killed in a fierce encounter with Special Operations Group (SOG) in Jammu and Kashmir. |
| 5/17/1916 | Gurusiddappa Sivappa, great industrialist, was born at Bangalore. |
| 1/29/1997 | Olympic Hockey captain Pargat Singh announces retirement. |
| 10/16/1978 | Test debut of Kapil Dev, India vs Pakistan, at Faisalabad. |
| 4/15/1976 | India announces it will send an envoy to Peking, first time in 15 years. |
| 2/11/1997 | A New Delhi district consumer court holds that provision of drinking water aboard trains is a necessity and it is the duty of the railways to provide it to passengers in reserved compartments. |
| 8/28/1993 | President's rule in J&K extended for another six months. |
| 11/20/1981 | Bhaskara-II, India's second experimental remote sensing satellite, was launched by Russian launch vehicle Intercosmos. This provided experience in building and operating a remote sensing satellite system on an end-to-end basis. |
| 1/20/1988 | Khan Abdul Gafar Khan, follower of Mahatma Gandhi, better known as Sarhadi Gandhi or Frointier Gandhi, passed away. |
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