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Historical Event on 2/1/1901
Six language penel were started on the Rs. five dinomination. These notes were single sided and the back side could be used for accounting purposes. The six languages were Urdu, Bengali, Telugu, Kaithi, Kannada and Tamil. The paper used for printing was white hand made and moulded.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/28/1925 | Raja Ramanna, fourth President of Indian Atomic Energy Commission, was born. |
| 9/8/1951 | The office of Controller of Military Accounts (Pensions) was re-designated as CDA(P), Allahabad. |
| 1/6/1942 | Four of the flight's six aircraft were promptly lost to Japanese bombing and No. 4 Flight gave place in Moulmein to No. 3 Flight which had meanwhile re-equipped with four ex-RAF Blenheim ls. B-314 completed first commercial flight around the world. |
| 4/14/1944 | Blast in ammunition loaded on 1,318 tonned freighter 'S. S. Fort Stikine' which was anchored in Victoria Dock at Bombay. The explosion killed 1376 people, wrecking 27 ships and destroying 40,000 tons of food. |
| 10/22/1908 | John Sutton, actor (Tower of London, Return of Fly), was born in Rawalpindi, India. |
| 3/19/2000 | Bill Clinton, US President, arrives to a warm welcome in India. This was the first presidential visit of a US head in two decades. |
| 4/17/1990 | Dinkar Gangadhar Kelkar, famous Director of Raja Kelkar Museum, passed away. |
| 11/2/1967 | Ministry of Education evolves a National Service Scheme for University students. |
| 10/31/1984 | Indira Gandhi, India's four-time prime minister, was gunned down by two members of her personal security guard as she walked from her home to her office in New Delhi. She died after four hours of emergency surgery. The only daughter of former Prime Minister Nehru was 66. Both of her attackers were identified as members of the Sikh religion. One was shot dead. The other was captured. Sikh extremists had threatened to kill Ms. Gandhi since she ordered the raid on their shrine in Amritsar. She had told an interviewer that she was not intimidated by the threats. 'I am not afraid,' she said. 'I am frequently attacked.' |
| 9/11/1889 | Dr. P. Subbarayan, minister and leader of the House in O.P. and President of the Cricket Control Board, was born in Tamil Nadu. |
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