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Historical Event on 3/1/1910

The Dalai Lama is welcomed in Darjeeling.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/12/1942British troops vacate the Andaman in Gulf of Bengal.
5/16/1994Phani Mujumdar, veteran film producer and director, passed away.
1/26/1926V. G. Kanitkar, famous Marathi literatteur, was born.
4/12/1871Gangadhar Balkrishna Deshpande, editor in modern era and dictionary creator, was born.
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.
4/22/1991Arun Nehru and Arif Mohammed Khan expelled from Janata Dal.
12/3/1971During the ensuing melee, three of the Sabres were shot down while all Gnats returning to base were unscathed. The first blood of a new Indo-Pakistan air war had been drawn. Other encounters were to follow over the next 10 days within both Indian and Pakistani airspace, before a full-scale war began.
11/5/1998Baba Nagarjun ""Vaidyanath Mishra"" died. He wrote in Hindi, Maithali and Sanskrit. Some of his noted works are ""Patra-Heen- Nagna Gachh"", ""Dukhmochan"", ""Yugdhara"" and ""Sah
1/29/1912Judge A.N. Ray, Chief Justice and Supreme Court of India, was born.
12/27/1987Vijaypal Singh sets a record for TJ in 16.79s at Trivandrum .