Year 1669
Aurangzeb deployed Special Forces to demolish temples in northern India.
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1 April: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 1 April.
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Year 1855
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's first Bengali primer 'Varnaparichay' was published.
Year 1869
Income Tax was imposed. On the same day, New Indian Divorce Act came into operation.
Year 1878
Calcutta Museum was opened for general public.
Year 1882
Savings Bank Postal system was introduced.
Year 1887
Establishment of the Mumbai Fire Brigade.
Year 1889
Hindu', English language newspaper changed its periodicity from weekly (20/09/1888) to daily.
Year 1889
Dr. Keshavrao Baliram Hedgewar, politician, and founder of Rashtriya Swayansewak Sangh (RSS), was born.
Year 1895
Establishment of the Indian Army.
Year 1902
Laxmidas Purshottamdas Jai, cricketer, (one Test, India v England 1934, scored 19 & 0), was born in Bombay.
Year 1912
The imperial capital of India was moved from Calcutta to Old New Delhi and the Province of Delhi was declared by a proclamation.
Year 1918
Royal Air Force replaces Royal Flying Corps in Britain.
Year 1920
S. Bhattacharya, cricket Test Umpire for 2 tests from 1963-70, was born in Delhi.
Year 1930
The minimum age of marriage for girls in India was set at 14 and for boys by 18 years.
Year 1930
Government announced 15 yrs and 18 yrs as the minimum marriageable age for girls and boys. This is presently remodified.
Year 1933
First Indian Air Force aircraft landed at Karachi.
Year 1933
Indian Air Force was established at Drigh Road in Karachi (now in Pakistan). Subroto Mukherjee and four other officers were inducted as pilots when the first Indian Air Force Squadron was formed.
Year 1935
Establishment of the Reserve Bank of India.
Year 1936
Establishment of the Indian state Odisha.
Year 1957
Decimal system introduced in India.
Year 1973
Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in the Jim Corbett National Park, India.
Year 1976
Establishment of the Apple Inc. in Cupertino, California, United States.
Year 1990
Bharat Ratna awarded to Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar.
Year 2004
Google launched the Gmail e-mail system.
Born 1578
William Harvey, an English physician.
Born 1621
Guru Tegh Bahadur, the ninth of ten Gurus of the Sikh religion.
Born 1815
Otto von Bismarck, the first chancellor of Germany.
Born 1856
Acacio Gabriel Viegas, Indian physician (d. 1933)
Born 1889
K. B. Hedgewar, the founding Sarsanghachalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
Born 1907
Shivakumara Swami, Indian religious leader, and philanthropist
Born 1909
Shivakumara Swami, an Indian supercentenarian, humanitarian, spiritual leader, and educator.
Born 1936
Tarun Gogoi, Indian politician, 14th Chief Minister of Assam
Born 1936
Abdul Qadeer Khan, Indian-Pakistani physicist, chemist, and engineer
Born 1937
Mohammad Hamid Ansari, the 12th Vice President of India.
Born 1941
Ajit Wadekar, an Indian international cricketer.
Born 1947
Ajit Pal Singh, the captain of the Indian hockey team.
Died 1984
Narayanrao Vyas, a Hindustani musician of Gwalior Gharana.
Died 1999
Shriram Bhikaji Welankar, the father of the Indian Postal Department’s pin code system.
Died 2012
N. K. P. Salve, a veteran Indian politician.
Died 2016
Pratyusha Banerjee, an Indian television actress.