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Historical Event on 6/20/1957

Govindrao Burhanpurkar, famous harmonium player, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/26/1952India says U.N. may disintegrate if powers block consideration of issues in small countries.
3/20/1994Pakistan closes down its consulate in Bombay.
2/17/1976New Zealand score their first innings win in Tests vs India.
4/1/1990Gold Control Act was withdrawn.
5/14/1657Dharmavir Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj was born on Purandar fort.
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.
6/6/1997U.S. Congress honours Mother Teresa with a gold medal.
11/2/1972ICMR set up a chain of regional centres of National Nutrition Monitoring and 500 Indians seize Washington Bureaux in different parts of India.
6/1/1998Petrol price is raised by Re.1 per litre.
2/1/1881Cambridge Missionaries founded St. Stephen's College in Delhi.