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Historical Event on 9/17/1960
Agreement reached with Pakistan on the distribution of the River Indus and its tributaries.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/16/1992 | Amar Varma, Hindi author, producer and director, died. |
| 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. |
| 3/3/1948 | B. S. Munje, founder of Bhosla Military School, passed away. |
| 12/6/1946 | Homeguard Organination was established. |
| 10/10/1995 | G. R Khairnar, the high profile suspended Deputy Municipal Commissioner of Bombay, was reinstated. |
| 8/4/1928 | Udham Singh, Indian field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1952, 56, 64), was born. |
| 11/2/1897 | Sohrab Meharwanji Modi, theatre and film producer, director and actor, was born. |
| 6/16/1925 | Chittaranjan Das, great freedom fighter, revolutionary, orator, poet, journalist and lawyer, died. |
| 5/10/1996 | PM P.V. Narasimha Rao and his Council of Ministers resign. |
| 10/1/1997 | Gul Mohammed (36), world's shortest man, died in New Delhi. Standing 56.16 cm tall, Mohammed entered the Guinness Book of World Records in 1992. |
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