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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 |
| 8/2/1781 | Sakharambapu Bokeel, great politician in Maratha kingdom, died. |
| 2/5/1922 | Gandhiji, following Chauri Chaura (U.P.) tragedy in which 22 police constables and one sub-inspector were burnt to death by a mob, fasts for five days and abandons plan of satyagraha movement. |
| 2/10/1961 | P. L. Deshpande played first solo drama 'Batatyachi Chawl'. |
| 6/1/1904 | Four Language panel were used for Rangoon. This panel had languages namely Burmese, Urdu, Tamil and Chinese. |
| 6/1/1874 | East India Company was dissolved. |
| 5/9/1996 | J. Jayalalitha, Tamil Nadu CM, resigns. |
| 3/3/1847 | Alexander Graham Bell, great pioneer, inventor and professor, was born at Edinburgh, Scotland. |
| 12/31/1993 | Manipur placed under President's rule; Bangarappa launches Karnataka Congress Party. |
| 2/1/1901 | Six language penel were started on the Rs. five dinomination. These notes were single sided and the back side could be used for accounting purposes. The six languages were Urdu, Bengali, Telugu, Kaithi, Kannada and Tamil. The paper used for printing was white hand made and moulded. |
| 5/31/1921 | Suresh Hariprasad Joshi, modern Gujarati poet, story writer and critic, was born. |
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