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Historical Event on 12/1/1989

National Front decides to form a government with outside support from the BJP and the Left Parties.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/14/1953Raghunath Dhondo Karve, Family Planning and Sex Education preacher, died.
11/30/1986Sikhs hijack bus, killing 24 at Punjab.
3/2/1997Bangalore's Dr. B. V. Ravi Kumar develops India's first indigenously made HIV detection kit.
1/19/1997Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad arrives in India on a 4-day visit.
2/14/1929Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.
9/2/1970Parliament abolishes the privileges of 279 maharajahs in New Delhi.
8/6/1998The Maharashtra Government rejects the Srikrishna Commission findings on the 1992-93 communal riots and the serial blasts in Mumbai, but agrees to act on the panel's suggestions to refurbish the police force.
1/23/1919Govindagraj (Ram Ganesh Gadkari), great Marathi drama writer, comedy writer and poet, passed away.
5/10/1982Karnataka Kranti Ranga led by Devaraj Urs comes into being.
1/26/1931Gandhiji was unconditionally released from prison.