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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.
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| 8/6/1920 | Star Films Ltd., Bombay, was founded by Ardeshir M. lrani and Bhogilal K. M. Dave. |
| 11/16/1997 | Sandalwood smuggler Veerappan offers to surrender. |
| 6/18/1966 | California's hippie subculture converged into a mass of long hair, flowers, and rock music this weekend, as 50,000 flowed into the fairgrounds of the Monterey International Pop Festival. The event featured the largest collection of major rock acts ever assembled; thousands of fans had to be turned away from the sold-out concert. Established artists such as the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, and the Mamas and the Papas received the expected ovations from the huge audience. But the response was equally enthusiastic for performances by Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar and new talents Janis Joplin, the Who, and Jimi Hendrix, a young man who played the electric guitar like nobody else. |
| 5/23/1903 | Gemini Roy, famous Painter, joined Government School of Arts and Crafts at Calcutta. |
| 8/1/1882 | Purushottamdas Tandon, great leader and editor, was born at Allahabad (U.P.). |
| 10/1/1967 | Indian Tourist Development Corporation Limited established. |
| 7/15/1997 | Mahesh Chander Mehta, Environmental activist, wins Ramon Magsaysay Award. |
| 1/12/1990 | Upper age limit for Civil Services Examination raised from 26 to 28 years. |
| 9/16/1995 | Prime Minister inducts 16 new members into his Council of Ministers and elevates three deputy ministers to the rank of Ministers of State. |
| 12/11/1906 | Mysore Gururaj Vijayasarathi, cricket Test umpire for 13 tests from 1951-60, was born in Karnataka. |
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