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Historical Event on 10/1/1958
Metric System of weights was introduced in India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/26/1911 | Prat Kumar Sinha, cricket Test empire for 2 tests from 1948-53, was born in Bengal. |
| 5/13/1916 | Vasudev Mahadev Salgaonkar, great Industrialist, was born. |
| 4/11/1856 | Lievens Constantly, Flemish missionary in India, was born. |
| 2/28/1951 | Karsan Devji Ghavri, cricketer (Indian lefty medium pacer early 80s), was born in Rajkot. |
| 7/29/1995 | Anup Jalota, famous Bhajan and Ghazal singer, was born. |
| 1/1/1985 | Doordarshan starts Malayalam telecast from Trivandrum. |
| 8/7/1941 | Rabindranath Devendranath Tagore ""Gurudev"", great Indian poet, voluminous playwright, Noble Laureate, social reformer, freedom fighter, painter and philosopher, passed away at Calcutta at the age on 80 years. He will be always remembered for the national song ""Jana Gana Mana"" and as a founder of Vishwa Bharati, Shantiniketen, etc. |
| 1/18/1998 | India overtake a Pakistan total of 314 to win one-day final in Dhaka. |
| 10/26/1932 | Chinadorai Deshmutu, Indian field hockey player (Olympics-1952), was born. |
| 4/9/1993 | Lt. Gen. B.C. Joshi to be the next army chief. |
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