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Historical Event on 12/26/1989

Keshav Shankar Pillai, international fame cartoonist, painter, writer and Padma Bhushan awardee, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/15/1947All-India Congress accepts British plan for partition of India in New Delhi.
3/2/1997Bangalore's Dr. B. V. Ravi Kumar develops India's first indigenously made HIV detection kit.
8/22/1919Girijakumar Mathur, famous modern Hindi poet, was born.
6/20/1996Govt. of India declares at Geneva conference on 'Global Ban On Nuclear Testing' that it won't sign the CTBT.
11/22/1990Laloo Prasad Yadav, Bihar CM, wins confidence motion (202-108).
7/7/1946Gandhiji addressed the A.I.C.C. meeting at Bombay; Congress accepted the Cabinet Mission plan of May 16.
12/10/1996Supreme Court bans employment of child labour in hazardous industries.
10/19/1967Dr. C. V. Raman elucidated his new theory on wave motion in respect to vision and dim light.
5/17/1998US President Bill Clinton wants India and Pakistan to sign CTBT.
6/2/1953Mountaineer Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and his Nepalese Sherpa guide Tensing became the first men to conquer Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain. The two reached the pinnacle of Everest, more than 29,000 feet above sea level, at 11.30 a.m.