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Historical Event on 4/8/1774
Narayan Rao's posthumous son, Madhav Rao, was seen as a challenge to Raghunath Rao only when he was 10 days old.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 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. |
| 3/16/1880 | Parshuram Rajshekhar Basu, famous Bengali writer, was born. |
| 2/28/1967 | General Election ( 4th) of India ends. |
| 11/20/1947 | Parliament gives Indian government censorship powers over press at New Delhi. |
| 8/14/1987 | A soldier in a guard of honor attacks Indian Prime Minister Gandhi with his rifle butt at Sri Lanka. |
| 10/6/1983 | Punjab Government was dismissed to halt religious and political violence by Indira Gandhi, who imposed President's rule in the state. |
| 3/17/1910 | Smt. Anutai Wagh, great social worker, passed away. |
| 12/23/1954 | Judge Bijan Kumar Mukherjea became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 31/01/1956. |
| 5/11/1995 | In central Kashmir, militants burnt the Charar-e-Sherif shrine (the tomb of Sufi saint Sheikh Noorudin Noorani) built in 1460 by Zain-ul- Abidin. |
| 2/12/1882 | Satyendranath Dutt, famous Bengali poet, was born. |
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