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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 |
| 7/1/1991 | Rupee devalued by 8.5\%. |
| 5/13/1996 | Lok Sabha election results (534 out of 537) announced, giving BJP (161) the position of the largest single party. |
| 8/11/1911 | Prem Bhatia, great journalist, was born. |
| 5/15/1873 | The proposal to dissolve East India Company was passed in England. |
| 5/16/1960 | International Telex Service between India and U.K. started. |
| 3/5/1961 | Sachin Sengupta, famous writer, dramatist and journalist, passed away. |
| 3/22/1907 | Perturbed by a new law restricting Asiatic immigrants, Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian attorney now living in South Africa, organized a campaign of civil disobedience to resist the statute popular bill passed by the new Boer government of the Transvaal Colony. The Asiatic Registration Bill was considered by Gandhi unjust and discriminatory to the large Chinese and Indian populations. However, the government expressed the belief that the ordinance was popular. ""Over 90 percent of the white people thoroughly approve of it,"" said Sir Gilbert Parker, a Conservative member of Parliament. |
| 12/8/1980 | Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev visits New Delhi. |
| 12/22/1998 | The National Award for the Best Technological Invention is conferred on Prof. J. R. Isaac, a computer scientist. |
| 1/6/1979 | Rohini-200, first monsoon experimental rocket, launched from Thumba. |
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