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Historical Event on 12/26/1989

The Constitution 62nd Amendment Bill, seeking to extend reservation for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes in Lok Sabha and state assemblies for another ten years, approved in Parliament.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/7/1910'Bharat History Research Mandal' was established.
11/6/1952Dipal Jayant Tilak, journalist and editor, was born.
6/27/1839Maharaja Ranjit Singh, ruler of Punjab and Spiritual Guru of sikh community, passed away.
1/3/1995PM inaugurates 82nd Indian Science Congress at Jadavpur University, Calcutta.
10/31/199426 die as cyclone lashes Tamil Nadu.
10/25/1999Fixed term for Lok Sabha, Assemblies is under study, said President K R Narayanan in his address to a joint session of Parliament.
2/25/1968Judge Mohammad Hidayatullah became the Chief Justice of India. He held this office till 16/12/1970.
8/18/1945Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose left Saigon and is believed to have died in a Japanese aeroplane crash at Taihoku Airport in Taiwan.
6/23/2000Indian journalist Palagummi Sainath gets Amnesty International Global award for human rights journalism..
5/26/1885Govindagraj (Ram Ganesh Gadkari), great Marathi playwright, comedy author and poet, was born.