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Historical Event on 1/1/1995
8th World Tamil Conference begins in Madurai.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/26/1888 | Ghanshyam Das Birla, great freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Pilani. |
| 12/20/1957 | Kalinga Prize for 1957 awarded to Lord Bertrand Russell. |
| 1/1/1932 | Publication of Marathi Newspaper 'Sakal' started. |
| 8/19/1996 | Gujarat's expelled BJP leader Shankersingh Waghela forms a new party called 'Rashtriya Janata Party'. |
| 10/9/1987 | Official Languages Rules, 1976 amended. |
| 6/16/1993 | Harshad Mehta accuses PM of taking Rs. 1 crore payoff from him in November 1991; Rao terms it malicious and unfounded. |
| 4/24/1973 | Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, cricketer (prodigy at 16, Indian capt at 23), was born in Bombay. |
| 5/19/1956 | The Indian govt. bans six U.S. and two British films for presenting a 'disparaging' impression of life in Africa, including 'African Queen' and 'Mogambo' at New Delhi. |
| 11/21/1961 | Communist China announced a cease-fire in its border war with India and said it would withdraw its troops 12 miles behind the boundary lines that existed in 1959. China said it was making the move to end the hostilities and to implement proposals it had made in October to settle the border dispute. Before the ceasefire, Chinese troops had seized the Indian headquarters at Bomdila near Tibet and were threatening the Indian state of Assam. Faced with defeat on the border and a Chinese invasion, the Indian government said it would ""respond positively"" to the Chinese offer of a ceasef |
| 6/28/1787 | Sir Henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces, was born. |
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