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Historical Event on 6/4/1997
Defence Ministry denies Washington Post's report that India has deployed Prithvi missile on Punjab border with Pakistan.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/1/1920 | Seth Darbari Shah, great industrialist, was born in Ikhlas. |
| 4/14/1992 | The 79th Plenary session of the Indian National Congress opens in Tirupati. |
| 8/2/1987 | Geet Sethi retains the World Amateur Billiards title. |
| 2/9/1917 | Homi Talyarkhan, great politician, was born. |
| 4/6/1942 | During the second world war, for the first time Japanese air-bombers attacked India, and the mainland took place at Visakhapatnam. |
| 2/25/1840 | Vinayak Konddev Oak, Marathi litteratewur, was born. |
| 2/7/1975 | Banke Bihar, mystery and religious story writer, passed away. |
| 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. |
| 6/4/1936 | Nutan, film actress, was born. |
| 1/14/1995 | Ban on VHP re-imposed. |
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