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Historical Event on 2/2/1835
Thomas Babington Macaulay westernises education in India. English is made official government and court language and as medium of instruction.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/22/1997 | India outplays Poland in the final hockey `Test' and win series 2-0. |
| 4/21/1990 | The first indigenously built missile cruiser boat, 'Vibhuti', was inaugurated and launched. |
| 1/4/1994 | Rahul Dev Burman, famous music director better known as 'Pancham Da', died at the age of 56. |
| 8/21/1978 | Vinoo Mankad, cricketer, died. He played 44 tests for India and had 2109 runs and took 162 wickets. |
| 5/9/1981 | Pandit Sundarlal, great revolutionary and writer of 'Bharat Mein Angreji Raj', passed away. |
| 12/21/1999 | The Gujarat Government asks the Hindu Jagran March to go-ahead with the 'Shilanyas' for a Ram temple at Halmodi in Surat district. |
| 1/24/1958 | First international Film Festival started in Mumbai. |
| 5/27/1957 | Copyright Act was passed. |
| 8/25/1981 | Sharad Pawar, Maharashtra leader, elected the President of Congress. |
| 2/24/1880 | Satyanarayan, great poet of Kannada language, was born. |
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