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Historical Event on 2/22/1947

Nehru welcomes British independence offer, invites Muslims to join at New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/3/1995Enron Power Project scrapped by Maharashtra government.
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.
1/1/1926Mohammad Abdul Hye, educationist, was born at Alitangani, (Nowgong).
3/1/1992Anant Gundopant Tendulkar, great journalist, passed away.
7/30/1947The part of Kashmir, North West Frontier Provience (NWFP), was swallowed up by Pakistan. The formality of raising the flag being done in November.
10/13/1911Sister Nivedita, follower of Vivekanand, died.
3/6/1995Arun Tamhankar, great journalist, died.
6/7/1989Sheetal Pandya set up a world record at the age of 5 years.
3/22/1947India's Last Viceroy Lord Louise Mountbatten came to India.
7/18/1987Arun Singh, union minister of state for defence, resigns from the cabinet.