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Historical Event on 6/1/1786
Madras General Post Office started functioning.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/25/1997 | Forest outlaw Veerappan seeks more time to decide on his surrender as per the terms of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka government. |
| 9/1/1998 | Tatas withdraw their Rs. 1,475-crore proposal to operate an airline with foreign equity participation in the domestic sector. |
| 8/15/1947 | The Indian independence divided not only the country but its armed forces as well. These units came down and their equipment was transferred to the newly created Royal Pakistan Air Force. Thus, the principal components of the Royal Indian Air Force, during the partition, were nos. 3, 4, 7, 8 and 10 Squadrons with Tempest US, No. 2 Squadron with Spitfires and No. 12 Squadron with C-47s and No. 1 Air Observation Flight (AOF). The establishment of this AOF with AOP Auster 4s, 5s and 6s, coincided with independence. No. 6 Squadron, which had been in process of converting from Spitfires to C-47s at Drigh Road, had been stood down and its transports transferred to Pakistan. |
| 9/17/1999 | Narayan Desai, Ajoy Kumar Basu and Saraswathi Gora are named for Jamnalal Bajaj awards. |
| 8/5/1905 | Dr. Rajah Sir Muthiah Chettiar, social reformer, was born. |
| 5/12/1992 | Security scandal, RBI extends probe to four foreign banks. |
| 4/19/1950 | Shyama Prasad Mukherji resigned. He was the first Minister of Central Cabinet. |
| 3/17/1769 | To establish the business of English Mill's Cloth, East Indiian Company had imposed various restriction on weavers of Bengal to destroy the Muslim and textile industry in Bengal , which was meant to destroy the Indian cloth and 'malmal' industry. |
| 8/14/1968 | Pravin Kalyan Amre, cricketer (Indian batsman, century on Test debut 1992), was born in Bombay. |
| 4/5/1993 | The Left and Democratic Front earns two third majority at the Tripura Assembly elections. |
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