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Historical Event on 9/18/1967

English was adopted the official language of Nagaland .

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/24/1954Rafi Ahmad Kidwai, Congress leader, died.
4/1/1902Laxmidas Purshottamdas Jai, cricketer, (one Test, India v England 1934, scored 19 & 0), was born in Bombay.
12/21/1911Central Bank of India established.
11/8/1988At 0910 hrs, One - O - Four's moments of glory were frozen for eternity when it received the coveted colours from the then President of Indian R Venkatraman.
10/30/1947The first Spitfires from the Advanced Flying School at Ambala reached Srinagar and were soon engaged in strafing the raiders beyond Pattan. Within a week, the Tempests of No. 7 Squadron were playing a decisive role in the battle of Shelatang which halted the forward momentum of the insurgents.
1/1/1981This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Year for the Disabled"".
8/18/1956Sandeep Madhusudan Patil, great Indian batsman, was born in Bombay.
1/7/1928Rajindranath, cricketer (4 stumpings in his only Test for India), was born at Amritsar.
7/21/1911Umashankar Jethalal Joshi, famous Gujarati poet, Hindi writer and educationist, was born at Bamna in Gujarat.
2/27/1996In the Jain hawala case, non bailable warrants of arrest issued against 10 politicians including BJP leader L.K. Advani, former Dy. PM Devi Lal and former Union Ministers.