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Historical Event on 10/1/1854
Postal stamp introduced in India. These lithographed stamps were of denominations of half anna and one anna. These stamps bore the Head of Queen Victoria with India at top and value at bottom. The half anna stamp was printed between May 5 to July 29 and printing of one anna stamp commenced on July 26.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/25/1972 | Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, great revolutionary freedom fighter, social worker, eminent litterateur, first Indian Governor General and the founder President of Swatantra Party, passed away. |
| 3/12/1996 | Election Commission rejects claim by Indira Congress as the real Congress. The 'hand' symbol will remain with Indian National Congress headed by PVN Rao. |
| 9/15/1997 | Prasar Bharati Act comes into force seeking to free Doordarshan and Akashvani from government control. |
| 5/7/1994 | Dr. S.P. Tripathy, Director-General of ICMR, retired after 32 years of distinguished service in the ICMR, and Dr. G.V. Satyavati took over as the new Director-General of ICMR in July 1994. She became the first woman scientist in the country to head not only ICMR but any Research agency in independent India. |
| 11/9/1960 | Subroto Mukherji, first Air Chief Marshall of Indian Air Force, suddenly died. |
| 8/1/1970 | Former Beatle George Harrison led an all-star entourage of rock talent through two sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden tonight, in a benefit for Bangladesh refugees. More than 40,000 attended the concerts, and Harrison hoped to donate $250,000 to the cause. The shows opened with sets of Indian music by sitarist Ravi Shankar, then moved through songs featuring Harrison, Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, Leon Russell, and another ex-Beatle, Ringo Starr. But the evening's most ecstatic ovations were reserved for the unexpected appearance of Bob Dylan. |
| 8/1/1995 | Vohra Panel submits report, highlights nexus between mafia and politicians. |
| 12/28/1990 | Following the war threat as the January 15 deadline set by UN for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait approaches, GOI advise Indians in Gulf to send back their families to India. |
| 12/28/1990 | Akbar left for Agra when he received the report of widespread rebellion. He arrived in Ahmedabad by forced marches on the eleventh day. |
| 10/29/1997 | P. Chidambaram, Finance Minister, says Indian rupee will be made fully and freely convertible by year 2000. |
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