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Historical Event on 4/26/1995
SAARC decides to launch South Asia Preferential Trade Area (SAPTA).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/29/1853 | Madhusudan Rao, modern writer in Oria language, was born. |
| 10/17/1995 | BJP withdraws support to Mayavati Government in Uttar Pradesh. UP Governor Motilal Vohra accepts the resignation of Mayawati and her cabinet but asks her to continue as caretaker government. BJP's top brass takes the final decision to break with the BSP. |
| 4/16/1991 | President's rule imposed in Haryana. |
| 3/4/1990 | V. P. Singh resigns as party president, but asked to continue. |
| 1/19/1982 | Mizo National Front and allied organizations declared illegal. |
| 10/23/1970 | If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour |
| 10/23/1970 | Tulsidas, Mahakavi Saint, was born. |
| 8/20/1988 | Earthquake measuring 6.5 on Richter Scale strikes India and Nepal. Thousands killed. |
| 1/16/1995 | Missile carrier vessel 'Vidhrut' dedicated to nation. |
| 10/20/1947 | First battle between India and Pakistan. |
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