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Historical Event on 6/1/1997

New postal rates effective; post card-25 p, inland letter-Re.1, envelope-Rs.2 and Registration-Rs.10.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/19/1999Salgaocar emerged National Football League champions in Calcutta with a match to spare.
6/24/1966Atul Chandrakant Bedade, cricketer (Indian ODI batsman from 1994), was born in Bombay.
10/23/1934Gandhi resigns as leader of the All India Congress.
9/4/1946Interim Government formed.
8/26/1949Social Democratic Party led by K. T. Shah formed.
1/11/1859Lord Curzon, Governor General and Viceroy, was born.
9/15/1965President Ayub Khan appeals to the US to use its influence to end Indian-Pakistani hostilities.
5/19/1951Sukhdev Bihari Mishra of Mishra Brothers, first historian of Hindi litterateur, passed away.
6/14/1997Rajya Sabha chairman recognises split in AIADMK parliamentary party and designates Jayalalitha-led AIADMK as AIADMK(I) and Thirunavukkarasu group as AIADMK(II).
9/19/1962Jawaharlal Nehru was devastated when China began attacks on India's northern frontier leading to Indo-China War.