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Historical Event on 4/1/1987

Bureau of Indian Standards was changed to Indian Standards Institution.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/21/1998India 'B' beats Sri Lanka 3-2 in the final of the Bristol Freedom Cup four-nation football tournament in Colombo.
3/28/1978Nafisa Joseph, Miss India Universe (1997), was born.
2/24/1961Government of Madras province was renamed as Tamil Nadu.
11/16/1993Kashmir's 32-day-old Hazaratbal impasse ends with militants' surrender.
2/28/1998The third and final phase of polling is held in 131 Lok Sabha constituencies in 10 States and one Union Territory.
9/29/1994Cable Television Regulation Ordinance issued.
12/10/1878Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, great social reformer, ardent patriot, incisive thinker and eminent literateur was born at Hosur in Tamil Nadu. He was the first Indian Governor General of independent India and popularly known as 'Rajaji'.
8/14/1900S. K. Patil, Congress leader, was born.
8/13/1997The contentious women's reservation bill put on the back burner with PM Gujral saying govt. would not push through such a major social legislation until there was a consensus on it.
10/10/197761 people died in an accident between a passenger train and a freight train at Naini.