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Historical Event on 9/26/1985

P.T. Usha sets record for 100m (Women) in 11.39 seconds at Jakarta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/20/1959Tej Bahadur Sapru passed away.
3/1/1993India develops Phased Array Radars critical for its ""Akash"" surface-to-air missile and launches its indigenous main battle tank 'Arjun'.
12/3/1991Satinder Kumar Lamba appointed India's Ambassador to Pakistan.
4/22/1998India and Bangladesh resolve to work together to ''root out terrorism'', push bilateral trade and harness river waters of the region.
7/13/1998India and Germany sign an agreement on promoting and protecting investment in Bonn.
11/18/1964Dharam Vira was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 27-06-1966
8/9/1942The Congress at its Bombay session passed the famous Quit India resolution, calling for mass struggle on non-violent lines on the widest possible scale, under the leadership of Gandhiji. He stressed that ""We shall either free India or die in the attempt; We shall not live to see the perpetuation of our slavery""; popularly known as ""Do or Die"". But before the Congress could start the movement, the government arrested all the major leaders and the Congress was declared illegal. Spontaneous popular revolts broke out with the battle cry of 'British Quit India'.
8/9/1942Amarsingh, Rajput king of Mewar, was born.
12/5/1999The Union Home Ministry ask Intelligence Bureau (IB) to conduct an inquiry against IB officials in ISRO spy case.
10/22/1997Faced with unprecedented Presidential rebuff, a divided U.F. Government reversed decision on invoking Article 356 in Uttar Pradesh. Kalyan Singh government survived.