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Historical Event on 1/29/1953
Indian National Academy of Dance, Drama and Music inaugurated.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
10/6/2000 | Mamata Banerjee, Trinamool Congress chief, withdraws her resignation from the Union Cabinet of Ministers. |
1/8/1968 | The 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. |
6/14/1886 | Orphanage for little girls was established. |
8/28/1896 | Firak Gorakhpuri, Urdu poet and Gyanpeeth awardee, was born. |
7/24/1996 | Govt. decides to raise the ceiling on the maximum amount of retirement/death gratuity from Rs. 1 lakh to Rs. 2.50 lakhs. |
7/11/1973 | India frees 438 Pakistani prisoners on medical grounds. |
1/26/2001 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Lata Mangeshkar. |
9/6/1995 | Salil Chaudhary, famous music director in Hindi film industry, passed away. |
1/15/1918 | K.C.D. Brahaspati, great poet, playwright and orientalist, was born at Rampur, UP. |
4/24/1858 | Kunwar Singh, revolutionary of Indian mutiny and freedom fighter, passed away. He fought his last battle near Jagdishpur, Bihar on April 23, 1858 and defeated the Britishers but was deeply wounded. He also organised the national rebels. |
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