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Historical Event on 6/1/1955

India's Untouchability (Offence) Act comes into force.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/31/1997The Bombay Stock Exchange crashes by 300 points.
1/29/1780Hicky's Bengal Gazette, the first news paper in India, was published in English in Calcutta .
12/6/2000The Supreme Court gives a clean chit to former Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao upholding the trial court's order, and discharging him and former Union Minister K.K. Tewary from the 'St.Kitts forgery case'.
11/22/1913Lakshmikant Jha, Governor of Jammu and Kashmir state and international famed ecomonist, was born.
12/15/1997Orissa Janata Dal unit splits with 29 of 43 Legislature Party members forming 'Biju Janata Dal'.
11/11/1991Supreme Court declares the Anti-Defection Law as constitutional but holds that decisions of Presiding Officers under the law could be subjected to judicial review.
11/15/1988Dalai Lama agreed for less then independent country to save the cultural heritage of Tibet.
9/29/2000India loses to Britain in the play off for the fifth and sixth places in the hockey match at the Sydney Olympics.
12/25/1991Ajit Singh expelled from the JD.
1/24/1976Burmah Shell, a private oil company, was nationalised and renamed as Bharat Refineries.