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Historical Event on 10/1/1958

Metric System of weights was introduced in India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/26/1992Indian Airlines hike fare by 9 percent.
4/1/2000Disinvestment not distress sell, says Prime Minister A. B. Vajpayee at a conference of chief executives of PSUs in New Delhi.
3/19/1936Satydev Dubey, stage artist, was born.
2/21/1991Nutan, famous film actress, died at the age of 56 years.
8/19/1910Sister Alphonsa, teacher and social worker, was born at Kudamaloor, Kerala.
8/6/1997Cabinet approves a proposal to amend the Hindu Marriage Act and the Special Marriage Act, with a view to removing epilepsy as a ground for annulling marriage or for declaring marriage as null and void.
8/17/1934Murasoli Shanmuga Sundram Maran was born in Thirukkuvalai village in Thiruvarur (Tamil Nadu).
11/23/1926Satya Sai Baba, Hindu universalist renaissance charismatic guru, educationalist and worker of miracles, was born.
5/19/1953State to control production and distribution of minerals involved in atomic energy development.
1/30/1996Supreme Court directs CBI and other govt. agencies to speed up the Jain hawala probe.