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Historical Event on 2/1/1827
Gordon's Esplanade building was established in Calcutta's Bengal Club.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/22/1965 | Plutonium Project (Sanyantra) was inaugurated at Trombay, Mumbai. |
| 1/18/1968 | The Resolution on Official Languages was passed by both the houses of the Parliament wherin the need to formulate a more intensive and comprehensive programme for the progressive use of Hindi for Official purposes, preparing annual assessment report for reviewing the progress, formulating a programme for the co-ordinated development of the other languages included in the 8th schedule alongwith Hindi, adopting of a tri-langual formula, making the knowledge of either Hindi or English compulsory for recruitment to the services of the Union, and inclusion of all the languages of the 8th schedule of the Constitution and English as the optional medium for the exams conducted by the union Public Service Commission at the appropriate time, has been stressed. |
| 5/9/1995 | Two new gas and oil reserves found off the Gujarat and Bombay coast. |
| 3/21/1996 | PSLV-D3 launched successfully. |
| 8/13/1911 | Guha Phulrenu, social worker, was born. |
| 7/1/1906 | Pulavar Kulandai, great author and poet, was born at Bhavani. |
| 11/7/1950 | King Tribhubana Bir Bikram of Nepal flees palace for refuge in Indian Embassy at Kathmandu. |
| 4/18/1970 | Dr. Dharmendra of the Indian Council of Medical Research awarded the Damien-Duttan Award for outstanding work in leprosy. |
| 9/24/1938 | Piloo Dara Reporter, cricket test umpire for 10 tests from 1984-87, was born in Mumbai. He was the first ever test umpire to be invited in a foreign country along with V. K. Ramaswamy also of India. |
| 6/16/1950 | Mithun Chakravorty, famous Hindi film actor, was born. |
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