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Historical Event on 7/5/1999

Two buses, which were inaugurated from Dhaka, arrive in Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/3/1931Gandhi and Viceroy Irwin sign Delhi Pact giving Indians right to make salt if civil disobedience stops.
10/15/1686Aurangzeb attacked and conqured Bijapur and this was the end of the Muslim Adilshahi's era.
12/24/1973E.V.Ramasami, founder of DMK party, prominent leader, great social worker and revolutionary freedom fighter, died at the age of 94.
8/27/1604Guru Granth Sahib was established in the Golden Temple of Amritsar.
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.
3/9/199314 bus passengers burnt to death in Andhra .
12/6/199813th Asian Games inaugurated at Bangkok.
5/28/1992Indo-US naval exercises begin.
2/26/1915Pran Nath Chhuttani, great physician and teacher, was born.
7/25/1987Ramaswamy Venkataraman became the eighth President of India. He held this office till July 25, 1992.