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Historical Event on 5/4/1992

India and Russia sign a five-year agreement on trade and economic cooperation.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/26/1990Sangma Ministry quits in Meghalaya. B. B. Lyngdoh is new CM.
9/9/1999Mr. V. Sudarshan, Foreign Editor of The Pioneer till recently gets the Appan Menon Award.
6/6/1996Benazir Bhutto,Pakistan PM, gives green signal for opening up trade with India.
1/22/1992Government raises Suzuki share in Maruti to 50 per cent making it the first public sector company to go private.
5/9/1996J. Jayalalitha, Tamil Nadu CM, resigns.
9/23/1862Sriniwas Shastri, great patriot and veteran politician, was born.
1/16/1989Prem Nazir, famous actor of more than 620 Malayalam films, died at the age of 59 yrs.
4/13/1997Paes-Bhupathi corner doubles glory in the Gold Flake Open tennis in Chennai.
1/8/1968The Official Languages Act, 1963 was amended. Accordingly, a provision was made in Section 3 (4) of the Act of the effect that employees of the Union Government proficient either in Hindi or in English may carry out their work effectively and that their interests may no be adversely affected merely because they are not proficient in both the languages. According to Section 3 (5), it is necessary for bringing to an end the use of English language for the Official purposes of the union that resolutions to this effect are passed by the legislatures of the states (i.e. states where Hindi is not the Official Language) and after considring these resolutions, a resolution is passed by both the houses of the Parliament to put an end to the use of English language.
8/21/1955Ramnarayan Vishwanath Pathak, noted critic of Gujarati literature, poet and story writer, passed away.