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Historical Event on 1/1/1983

This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Communications Year"".

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/18/1998India talks with the US on the nuclear tests.
9/16/1967Tibetan, Indian and Chinese troops engage in fighting at Natu La pass on the Tibet-Sikkim border.
5/29/1982Naval Academy at Ezhimala, Kerala, was approved by Union Cabinet.
7/27/1887Sardar Davar Tehmuras Kavasji, social worker and lawyer, was born.
11/16/1993Kashmir's 32-day-old Hazaratbal impasse ends with militants' surrender.
3/14/1895Nihalsing Gurumukh, former Chief Minister of Delhi and Governer of Rajasthan, was born.
10/14/1999Sheikh Shamim, an Indian, is hanged for espionage in Pakistan.
1/18/1968The 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.
7/10/1992Dr. Najma Heptulla re-elected Dy. Chairman of Rajya Sabha.
10/16/1952Pakistan's first Test vs India starts at Delhi.