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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
3/21/1939Gandhi calls on world to disarm, thinks Hitler would follow.
9/18/1932A Hindu delegation is given permission to interview Gandhi, currently held in prison and undertaking a hunger strike. On arrival, they also find he has taken a vow of silence.
5/6/1944Mahatma Gandhi was released unconditionally from his last imprisonment from Aga Khan Palace at Pune.
5/17/1999Sonia Gandhi resigns as Congress president but the CWC(I) rejects it.
8/6/1999Kalpnath Rai (58), former Union Minister, died in New Delhi.
5/8/1997Mumbai High Court holds that Christian women can seek divorce on the sole ground of being subjected to cruelty and need not prove infedidelity on the part of their husbands or desertion.
12/10/1886Rameshwari Nehru, social worker and freedom fighter, was born at Lahore.
11/9/1960Subroto Mukherji, first Air Chief Marshall of Indian Air Force, suddenly died.
8/13/1997The contentious women's reservation bill put on the back burner with PM Gujral saying govt. would not push through such a major social legislation until there was a consensus on it.
11/30/1999The disinvestment panel headed by G. V. Ramakrishna demits office after the end of its three-year term.