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Historical Event on 1/10/1996
Centre sets up Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/18/1937 | 1,100 prisoners freed after appeal by Gandhi, his first political act in year. |
| 3/17/1997 | A Delhi court sentences former Union Minister Kalpnath Rai to 10 years RI. |
| 11/1/1956 | Indian Government re-organizes the states according to linguistic principles and inaugurates second Five-Year Plan. The states declared were Madhya Pradesh, Punjab by merging Patiala & PEPSU, Mumbai was divided in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka. Union Territories namely Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshdeep Minikai and Amin Divi were approved. |
| 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. |
| 3/29/1952 | India enters into a war with Japan. |
| 7/15/1979 | Morarji Desai resigns as PM. Jagjivan Ram elected Janata Parliamentary party leader. |
| 1/19/1919 | Omprakash Mehra, former Indian Air Chief Marshal and former Governor of Maharashtra, was born. |
| 6/10/1955 | Prakash Padukone, internationally famous Badminton player, was born. |
| 6/1/1947 | Balbhimraj Gore, litterateur and Hindi critic, was born. |
| 3/25/1898 | Swami Vivekanand accepted Sister Nivedita as his disciple. |
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