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Historical Event on 1/1/1985

United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the year as the ""International Youth Year""(IYY) with the theme ""Participation, Development and Peace"".

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/10/2000Parliament approves the Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Bill to create a hilly state of Uttaranchal.
5/14/1998India will not sign CTBT unconditionally, says the Prime Minister.
9/10/1858Manilal Nathubhai Dwivedi, great author and father of modern Gujarati poems, was born.
1/25/1824Micheal Madhusudan Dutta, Bengali poet and dramatist, was born in Sagardari village of Jessore district.
2/4/1993D. C. Kothari, famous scientist and educationalist, passed away.
3/26/1993Surajkund AICC okays dual posts for Narasimha Rao.
10/17/1919The Khilafat Movement was launched under the leadership of Maulana Jauhar Ali, Maulana Shaukat Ali and Abdul Kalam Azad.
4/27/1996General Election (11th) of India begins.
12/21/1929Indian National Congress convenes in Lahore.
11/8/2000Queen Ingrid (90), Denmark's Swedish born queen mother and great-grand daughter of Britain's Queen Victoria, died in Copenhagen.