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Historical Event on 1/29/1976
Parliamenentary Committee on official language constituted. The Committee has since then submitted six parts of its report and Presidential orders have been issued on first five parts of it. The sixth part is in print.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/1/1967 | Indian Tourist Development Corporation Limited established. |
| 1/15/1898 | Nanasaheb Ramji Tawde, educationist and scientist, was born at Taluq Malvan, Maharashtra. |
| 8/17/1761 | William Carey, the first English missionary to India, was born. He taught at the newly founded Fort William College at Calcutta from 1801 till his death and helped found the Serampore Press, which made the Bible accessible to over 300 million people. |
| 7/14/1997 | India finishes third in Asian women's weightlifting. |
| 5/16/1975 | Sikkim High Court was established at Gangtok for Sikkim territory. |
| 10/17/1994 | Seshan's controversial biography ''DMK'' obtains stay. |
| 12/16/1999 | Likhiram Karve, Madhya Pradesh's Minister for Transport, is hacked to death by naxalites. |
| 11/14/1997 | N. V. N. Somu, Union Minister of State for Defence and president of The Hindu Office and National Press Employees Union from 1969, died in Army Helicopter crash at Tezpur in Arunachal Pradesh. |
| 8/2/1958 | Arshad Ayub, cricketer (Indian off-spinner in 13 Tests between 1987-89), was born in Hydrabad. |
| 4/24/1972 | Jamini Roy, Padmabhushan awardee and famous painter, passed away. |
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