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Historical Event on 1/15/1958

Tamil becomes the official language of Madras.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/16/1973Abasaheb Mujumdar, great musician, died.
3/12/1993Powerful bomb blasts at twelve various places in Mumbai takes 317 lives.
9/13/1948Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel took police action on Hyderabad for anti national policy's of Nijam of Hyderabad and Rijvi Rajakar's.
1/10/1912Prodosh Kusum Das Gupta, great artist and professor, was born at Dacca, Bangladesh.
7/18/1980Second Experimental launch of Space Launch Vehicle -3 (SLV-3) by Indian made 35 kilogram Rohini satellite (RS-1) successfully placed in orbit. It was used for measuring in-flight performance of second experimental launch of SLV-3. The launch took from Sriharikota and India became the sixth nation to put a satellite into orbit.
10/1/1993Two more Election Commissioners appointed.
4/1/1936Orissa state was formed as a province of British India separating from Bihar.
3/22/1999Punjab men, Railway women emerged National basketball champions in Jaipur.
7/6/1881Saint Gulabrao Maharaj was born in Vidarbha.
10/15/1992Talwinder Singh Parmar, the Babbar Khalsa founder who masterminded the Kanishka jumbo explosion of 1985, was shot by security forces in Punjab.