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Historical Event on 8/18/1800
Fort William College was established at Calcutta.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/9/1992 | LDF wrests Narakal while the UDF retains the Tanur assembly seat in Kerala. |
| 11/9/1948 | Administration of Mayurbhanj State taken over by the Government of India. |
| 10/5/1993 | CBI chargesheeted 40 in Ayodhya case. Advani, Joshi and Bal Thackeray were among the accused. |
| 1/30/1968 | Makhanlal Chaturvedi, famous Hindi poet, writer and President of All India, passed away. |
| 4/3/1950 | Jayprakash Shankarrao Mundada, cabinet Minister of BJP-Shiv Sena alliance, was born. |
| 7/23/1856 | Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak was born on July 23rd, 1856 |
| 2/5/1993 | The Supreme Court directs the Union Government to forcibly produce Manipur Speaker Dr. Borobabu Singh before it on March 23 in a contempt case. |
| 6/24/1991 | Two LIC officers burnt to death in Kashmir. |
| 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. |
| 6/22/1994 | Law for the betterment of women introduced. |
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