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Historical Event on 1/1/1986

This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Peace Year"".

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/27/1947Princes were appealed to regard people's paramountcy as a privilege.
3/10/1940Banwarilal Bhagwandas Purohit, famous leader of Vidarbha, was born.
12/7/1782Hyder Ali, warrior of Mysore, passed away in a camp near Chittur.
3/30/1997Congress Party withdraws support to the 10-month old H. D. Deve Gowda Government at the centre, and stakes its claim to form an alternative government.
6/17/1995Motilal Vohra, UP Governor, sets agenda for a two-day special session of the UP Assembly asking the speaker to take up a motion against self first.
5/3/1998Kushabhau Thakre takes over as the new BJP President.
4/21/1659Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj meet Saint Samarth Ramdas Swami.
12/26/1986Consumer Rights Act was passed.
5/8/1992Eighth Plan outlay increased to Rs. 7,98,000 crores; Public Sector outlay goes up to 45\%.
8/30/1979Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'.