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Historical Event on 6/1/1786

Madras General Post Office started functioning.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/1/1948Orissa High Court was established at Cuttack for Orissa territory.
3/1/1962Gaya University renamed as Magadh University.
7/28/1914Japanese boat 'Kamagata Maru' was compelled to deport to India from Vancouver, Canada. The ship was boarded with active freedom fighters who were against the British Government.
8/29/1959India sends troops to Tibet border to block the Chinese.
1/11/1986Union Government declares Ladakh a Scheduled Tribe area under a constitutional amendment order by the President, applying article 342 for the first time to J&K.
10/14/1998Prof. Amartya Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. He became the sixth Indian, by birth or citizenship, to win a Nobel.
3/14/1997Veerendra Patil, 73, twice former Chief Minister of Karnataka, passed away.
7/18/1993Rail, road traffic disrupted.
3/4/1924Shyam Lal Gupt 'Parshad' wrote the song 'Jhanda Ooncha Rahe Hamara'.
4/8/1997Delhi High Court quashes charges of corruption and criminal conspiracy against L.K. Advani (BJP President), and former Union Minister V.C. Shukla in the Jain hawala case.