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Historical Event on 4/1/1976

Television was separated from radio, and Doordarshan Corporation was established.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/19/1911Merle Oberon, film actress (Assignment Foreign Legion), was born in Calcutta, India.
12/11/1958Wilson Jones became India's first individual World Champion when he won the Amateur Billiards Championship.
4/20/1992U. K. Kanitkar, famous scientist, and professor, passed away.
2/26/1975Bhanubhai Shah established the first kite museum of India called 'Shankar Kendara' in Ahmedabad.
12/20/1994The last batch of troops of IAF left the capital city of Mogadishu.. Cpl Nasir was left as a lying casualty due to injuries sustained in the RPG explosion by AN-124 contracted by UN.
5/31/1970Indira Gandhi called for international help as the civil war in Bangladesh, or East Pakistan, had turned two million people into refugees. Many of them were suffering from cholera and smallpox. The authorities of West Pakistan refused to care for them, and India couldn't afford to.
3/29/1999A massive earthquake in the Garhwal region of Uttar Pradesh in the inner Himalayas claims 85 lives and more than 130 injured.
7/18/1908Fourteen thousand mill workers go on strike at Bombay.
6/4/1903Gandhiji established the weekly journal ""Indian Opinion"" organised at Phoenix farm near Durban.
3/19/1954The first helicopter S-55 arrived at Bombay by sea.