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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 |
12/11/1967 | 6.5 earthquake in West India, 170 killed. |
5/1/1908 | Praful Chaki committed suicide after he threw a bomb on Judge Kingsford of Mujaffarpur, killing two inocent women. |
6/12/1975 | Allahabad court voids Indira Gandhi's election as premier, citing corruption at New Delhi. |
1/20/1879 | Raghunath Chaudhary, famous Assamia nature poet, was born. |
5/26/1945 | Vilasrao Dagdojirao Deshmukh, leader in Maharashtra, was born. |
8/30/1645 | Indians and Dutch sign the peace treaty. |
11/16/1913 | Agnihotri Ambadas Shankar, journalist and litterateur, was born. |
6/11/2000 | Assailants gun down 12 upper caste persons, including eight of a family in Bihar's Nawada district. |
11/24/1989 | Tendulkar scores a record cricket test 50 aged 16 years 214 days. |
10/5/1890 | Kishorlal Ghanshyamlal Mashruwala, great thinker and philosopher of Gandhi era, was born. |
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