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Historical Event on 1/21/1970

Harivinayak Pataskar, former Central Minister and Governor of Madhya Pradesh, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/1/1902Laxmidas Purshottamdas Jai, cricketer, (one Test, India v England 1934, scored 19 & 0), was born in Bombay.
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3/16/1924Bhupendranath Basu, great freedom fighter, President of Congress and fluent orator, passed away.
1/29/1976Parliamenentary Committee on official language constituted. The Committee has since then submitted six parts of its report and Presidential orders have been issued on first five parts of it. The sixth part is in print.
5/26/1993The Centre decides to implement the Mandal Commission recommendation to provide 27\% reservation for the socially and educationally backward classes in the Central Services from 15th June.
3/3/1952The Indian National Congress secured absolute majority in the Lok Sabha in the General elections.
4/27/1960Presidential orders were issued on the report of the Committee of Parliament on official Languages which includes issues relating to preparation of terminology (Hindi glossaries, Hindia translation of codes and procedural literature, imparting training in Hindi to employees propagation of Hindi, language of bills, language to be used in the Supreme Court and High Court etc).
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1/19/1931The first Round Table Conference held in London ended. This conference was attended by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar also.