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Historical Event on 3/31/1964
Tram-way service ended in Mumbai (Bombay). This last electric tram left Bori Bunder (CST) for Dadar at 10 p.m., crowds lined the route all the way at that late hour to bid farewell to the common man's transport medium.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/15/1967 | Fourth General Election of Lok Sabha begins. |
| 9/29/1930 | Ramnath Baburao Kenny, cricketer (batted in 5 Tests for India in 1950's), was born in Bombay. |
| 9/13/1997 | Grieving India lays to rest Mother Teresa in state funeral in Calcutta in which pomp and splendour is combined with religious rites. |
| 1/19/1948 | India and Pakistan accept U.N. mediation in New York. |
| 2/28/1919 | Sunderlal Khurana, great politician and journalist, was born. |
| 9/29/2000 | Nayudu award goes to former India cricket captain Lt. Col. Hemu Adhikari. |
| 1/18/1968 | The 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. |
| 12/10/1913 | The Nobel prize for literature was awarded this year to Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali poet from India. |
| 7/14/1998 | India is elected chairperson of the World Intellectual Property Organisation's standing panel on information technology in relation to Intellectual Property Rights. |
| 8/8/2000 | The Government appoints Air Marshal P. Rajkumar to head the court of enquiry to probe the Alliance Air crash near Patna. |
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