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Historical Event on 12/15/1957
60 Harijans enter the Vishwanath Temple at Varanasi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/13/1992 | Union government decides to form a National Human Rights Commission. |
| 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. |
| 6/9/1998 | Gujarat was hit by a cyclone killing 1,000 people in six days. |
| 4/3/1999 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2E), fifth satellite in INSAT-2 series, launched. This has multipurpose communication & meteorological capabilities. This is still in use. Launched by European launch vehicle Ariane, ISRO has leased eleven 36 MHz equivalent units of C-band capacity on board to INTELSAT organisation. |
| 8/1/1922 | Ratilal Sankalchand Nayak, educationist and writer, was born at Kadi, Gujarat . |
| 10/12/1993 | The first operational sortie in Somalia was undertaken with the Brigade Commander and his Deputy on board to recede the area of responsibility in and around Baidoa which was to be the bridage's permanent location. |
| 9/25/1984 | Indian Army withdraws from the Golden Temple; repair of Akal Takht complete. |
| 8/6/1951 | Rukmini Lakshmipathi, great social reformer and leader, died. |
| 5/10/1999 | Tamil Nadu Government withdraws the controversial Prevention of Terrorist Activities (POTA) Bill. |
| 5/10/1999 | Vallabhacharya, founder of 'Pushthimarg Panth', was born. |
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