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Historical Event on 11/15/1999

The no-confidence motion moved against Om Prakash Chautala by the opposition failed in Haryana.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/16/193635 killed in Hindu-Muslim riots at Bombay.
10/16/1936Humayun crossed the Indus and captured Lahore and ousted Sikandar Suri of Delhi throne.
4/23/1955Political Committee of Asian-African Conference at Bandung adopted an Indian resolution calling for a ban on atomic weapons.
3/12/1988Samresh Basu, famous Bengali writer, passed away.
2/5/1968Narottam Nagar, veteran hindi writer, passed away.
6/21/1814Gilbert Aliat Minto, Governor General of East Indian Company, died.
11/15/1995Qiao Shi, Chairman of the standing committee of the Chinese National Peoples' Congress, arrives in New Delhi to advance Sino-Indian relations.
10/24/1789Jean C Baud, Governor General of Dutch-Indies (1834-6), was born
1/5/1941Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, cricketer (Nawab of Pataudi jr., Indian batsman & youngest Indian Test Captain), was born in Bhopal.
1/8/1968The 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.