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Historical Event on 4/1/1957

Postage stamps and sale of postal stationary was introduced as per decimal coinage system and Rupee was established to Hundred Naya Paisa.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/25/1932Rammanohar Vishnunarayan Tripathi, great social worker and political leader of Maharashtra, was born.
6/5/1994Shakti Singh at Bangalore sets record for DT in 61.72.
7/18/1993Rail, road traffic disrupted.
2/11/1993Naik sacks six ministers in Maharashtra.
7/25/1982Gyani Zail Singh became 7th President of India. He held the office till July 25, 1987.
11/19/2000Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, agriculture scientist, gets the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 1999.
2/18/1997Dhaniram Baruah, controversial heart surgeon who claimed to have transplanted a pig's heart into one of his patients, released on bail in Guwahati.
5/2/1996Controversial godman Chandraswami arrested and sent to high security Tihar jail on a day's judicial custody by a Delhi court for allegedly cheating NRI businessman Lakhubhai Pathak of $1 lakh in 1983.
7/9/199517 Indian mountaineers peaked Jogambha in the Garhwal Himalayas.
3/13/1971Fifth General Election of India ends.