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Historical Event on 12/28/1974

Pandit Hiralal Shastri, great social worker, leader and first Chief Minister of Rajasthan State, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/28/1967General Election ( 4th) of India ends.
7/21/1935Establishment 'Mumabi Marathi Sahitya Sangh'.
2/24/1924Mahatma Gandhi released from jail.
1/17/1997Supreme Court bans all non-forest activities including running of saw mills and mining in forest areas.
10/20/1774New Regulating Act was introduced which abolished the East India Company Government and a new Government was formed.
1/18/1968The Resolution on Official Languages was passed by both the houses of the Parliament wherin the need to formulate a more intensive and comprehensive programme for the progressive use of Hindi for Official purposes, preparing annual assessment report for reviewing the progress, formulating a programme for the co-ordinated development of the other languages included in the 8th schedule alongwith Hindi, adopting of a tri-langual formula, making the knowledge of either Hindi or English compulsory for recruitment to the services of the Union, and inclusion of all the languages of the 8th schedule of the Constitution and English as the optional medium for the exams conducted by the union Public Service Commission at the appropriate time, has been stressed.
1/1/1920Seth Darbari Shah, great industrialist, was born in Ikhlas.
5/21/1935Quetta earthquake takes a heavy toll of life.
12/19/1978The Lok Sabha expels Indira Gandhi from the House and sentences her to imprisonment for a term lasting its prorogation. She was released from jail on December 26.
5/1/1994Six leading Akali factions dissolved to form a new party, the Shiromani Akali Dal-Amritsar, which wanted a 'Sikh State'.