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Historical Event on 1/18/1950
India is declared a secular republic. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (1947-1964) is determined to abolish casteism and industrialize the nation. Constitution makes Hindi official national language, English to continue for 15 years, 14 major state languages are recognized. India also moved a motion for no war treaty between India and Pakistan to improve the relations with neighboring countries.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/25/1948 | Jana Gana Mana to be the provisional National Anthem till Constituent Assembly made a final decision. |
| 11/18/1974 | Telex Service started between India and Pakistan. |
| 5/14/1994 | LTTE banned for the second time under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. |
| 2/1/1827 | Gordon's Esplanade building was established in Calcutta's Bengal Club. |
| 8/7/1887 | Kasturi Shriniwas Iyengar, politician and journalist, was born. |
| 12/15/1965 | Third cyclone of the year kills another 15,000 at mouths of Ganges river. |
| 6/5/1974 | Smallpox epidemic in the country. |
| 7/13/1995 | Devyani Chaubal, film journalist, passed away. |
| 1/18/1936 | Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), famous English writer and author, died in Burwash, England at 70. He was a young journalist in British India. He wrote in verses, stories, novels childen's stories some of these were ""The Jungle Book, Kim and Just-50 stories"" and was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 for 'Kim' (Indian based story). |
| 10/19/1990 | The Government of India under an ordinance puts forward a three-point formula for Ayodhya issue: (i) to acquire the land (ii) other land may be given for building temple except the disputed one (iii) the issue may referred to Supreme Court for speedy solution. |
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