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Historical Event on 10/1/1958

Metric System of weights was introduced in India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/24/1950G.J.M.Gazdar, computational linguist, was born.
6/6/1962General Election ( 3rd) of India ends.
11/10/1848Surendranath Banerji, popularly known as Rashtraguru, was born at Taltala, Calcutta. He passed his final ICS Examination in 1869 and joined in 1871, He was President of the Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad.
6/18/1956New Hindu Succession Act was passed.
1/27/1888Jinvijayji Muni, famous Shwetambar Jain Yati, was born.
6/15/1948Rajah Annamalai Chettiar, famous musician, social worker and Governor of the Imperial Bank of India, passed away.
12/22/1853Saradamoni Devi was born in Jairambati of Hooghly district.
9/27/1995Cellular phone service operates for the first time in Delhi.
3/16/1939Subroto Mukherjee became the first Indian Officer to command a squadron when he took over No.1.
2/1/1910Jahangir Mohammed Khan, cricketer (father of Majid, Indian player 1932-36), was born in Jallundar.