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Historical Event on 12/31/1988
Treaty signed between India and Pakistan for not to target nuclear sites of each other.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/21/1992 | UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali visits New Delhi. |
| 4/11/2000 | Ms. Jhumpa Lahiri, an author of Indian origin, wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her debut collection of short stories 'Interpreter of Maladies'. |
| 10/12/1995 | Inderjit Gupta re-elected General Secretary of CPI. |
| 7/11/1973 | India frees 438 Pakistani prisoners on medical grounds. |
| 5/27/1919 | Kandukuri Veeresalingam, father of modern Telgu language, author and social reformer, passed away. |
| 10/21/1997 | RBI de-regulates deposit rates, reduces CRR and Bank Rate (from 10\% to 9) and allows banks to have two sets of Prime Lending Rates. |
| 1/16/1941 | Ashok Vajpai, veteran critic and Hindi poet, was born. |
| 10/6/1954 | Nehru declared the National Health Scheme for the entire country. |
| 12/7/1825 | First Steam Engine Ship ""Enterprise"" reached Calcutta. |
| 12/16/1922 | Parvati Devi, orator, was arrested for delivering revolutionary speeches in meetings at Hapud and Merrut. She was the first Indian women to get two years long imprisionment during the freedom struggle. |
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