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Historical Event on 11/11/1793

English pioneer missionary William Carey, 32, reached Calcutta five months after setting sail for India. Later, Carey founded the Baptist Missionary Society, the first of the British Protestant missions agencies.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/6/1944Mahatama Gandhi was for the first time addressed as 'Father of Nation'.
2/4/1973India's then biggest commercial ship merchant fleet 88,000 DWT super tanker ""Jawaharlal Nehru"" commenced its services for the Nation.
8/1/1992S. Rajgopal was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-07-1993.
1/8/1968The Official Languages Act, 1963 was amended. Accordingly, a provision was made in Section 3 (4) of the Act of the effect that employees of the Union Government proficient either in Hindi or in English may carry out their work effectively and that their interests may no be adversely affected merely because they are not proficient in both the languages. According to Section 3 (5), it is necessary for bringing to an end the use of English language for the Official purposes of the union that resolutions to this effect are passed by the legislatures of the states (i.e. states where Hindi is not the Official Language) and after considring these resolutions, a resolution is passed by both the houses of the Parliament to put an end to the use of English language.
5/19/1979Pandit Hajari Prasad Dwivedi passed away.
3/5/1989Baba Prithvisingh, founder of Labour Party, passed away.
7/1/1961Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian women astronaut (STS 87), was born in Karnal.
1/19/1977World's largest crowd--12.7 million--gather for Indian religious festival 'Kumbh Mela'.
5/13/1791Lord Cornwallis retreated back to Madras after the battle of Arikera.
11/14/1955Employees' State Insurance Corporation was inaugurated by the President.