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Historical Event on 5/1/1966
Marathi becomes the official language of Maharashtra.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/21/1997 | Railways emerges overall champion in national road cycling championship in Calcutta. |
| 6/18/2000 | K.M. Beenamol breaks P.T. Usha's record in 400m at 51.21 sec in an international meet at Kiev in Ukraine. |
| 9/18/1992 | M. Hidayatullah, former Vice President and Chief Justice, died. He was 87. |
| 8/19/1993 | Sharad Pawar elected to Maharashtra Legislative Council from Pune. |
| 6/15/1991 | About 50% of the 180.3 million electorate cast their votes in the final phase of Lok Sabha elections. |
| 1/10/1967 | Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, laid the foundation stone of Women's University, Karnataka, founded to pay gratitude to Rani Chainema of Kitur. |
| 8/5/1965 | Jaya Prakash Narayan was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for public service. |
| 10/6/1808 | Ardaseer Cursetjee Wadia, professor, pioneer, innovator, chief engineer and Inspector of Machinery at the Steam Factory at Bombay and one of the dignitaries, was born. |
| 1/9/1976 | President suspends seven freedoms guaranteed by Article 19 of the Constitution. |
| 4/15/1950 | Acharya Vinoba Bhave requested to the villagers of Panchampalli Telangana, Andhra Pradesh to give 80 acres of land, and with this he had started his 'Bhudan Andolan'. |
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