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Historical Event on 11/20/1907
Railroad workers strike in India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/4/1845 | Pherozeshah Mehta, who published the first Hindi newspaper and one of the founders of Indian National Congress, was born in Bombay. |
| 6/17/1991 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Rajiv Gandhi (Posthumous) (1944-1991). |
| 1/10/1932 | Gandhi and his wife are arrested by the Indian authorities. |
| 10/20/1992 | Nirad C. Chauduri, 94, the Indian writer living in Oxford, made honorary Commander of the British Empire. |
| 7/14/1999 | Arvind Dave is appointed Governor of Arunachal Pradesh. |
| 6/1/1997 | New postal rates effective; post card-25 p, inland letter-Re.1, envelope-Rs.2 and Registration-Rs.10. |
| 3/26/1931 | New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of British-Indies. |
| 8/25/1997 | Cabinet approved the draft of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) which was to replace the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act (FERA). |
| 8/25/1997 | Muhammad of Bin Quasim (Kasim), Arabs, attacked on Sindh and captured it. Muhammad defeated and killed King Dahir, Hindu king, at Rawar. |
| 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. |
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