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Historical Event on 2/19/1993
SC Jamir elected leader of the Congress (I) Legislature Party in Nagaland.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/28/1992 | Umanath Vachaspati, Magsesey Award winner, passed away. |
| 8/12/1946 | Viceroy announces invitation to Congress to form provisional Government. |
| 11/6/1962 | National Defence Council established. |
| 12/10/1918 | Rowlatt Act introduced by Lord Chelmsford. |
| 3/1/1917 | J. F. Maden gave a preview of the first Bengali fiction film ""Satyawadi Raja Harischandra"". |
| 3/16/1946 | Alladiya Khan, famous singer of Kolhapur Darbar, passed away. |
| 1/26/1997 | Government prohibits manual scavenging and construction of dry latrines in six states (AP, Goa, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tripura, West Bengal) and all UTs. |
| 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. |
| 6/12/1972 | D. G. Tendulkar, historian who had written the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, died. |
| 4/25/1998 | India protests against Pakistan raising the Kashmir issue at the first SAARC Information Ministers conference in Dhaka. |
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