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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 |
| 6/1/1786 | Madras General Post Office started functioning. |
| 2/18/1993 | Congress (I) secures absolute majority in Nagaland and emerges as the single largest party in Meghalaya. |
| 7/11/2000 | Amrita Pritam, noted litterateur, honoured with the highest award for Punjabi literature for the century:""Shatabdi Samman"". |
| 9/28/1940 | Pundit Sunder Lal Sharma, freedom fighter and social reformer, passed away. He was also known as ""The Chhattisgarh Gandhi"". |
| 3/25/1999 | Arathi Ponnappa,Former National tennis champion, called it quits from competitive tennis in Bangalore. |
| 8/22/1988 | Gorkha National Liberation Front signs an accord with the Centre and West Bengal on formation of an elective hill Council for Darjeeling. |
| 10/1/1997 | Gerhard Fischer, social worker, nominated for Gandhi peace prize. The 76-year-old German "Ambassador of Humanity'' was unanimously chosen for his contribution for social, economic and political transformation through non-violence |
| 8/8/1990 | Violent protests rock Bihar against Mandal Commission Report implementation. |
| 2/15/1865 | Kishorilal Goswami, Hindi novelist, was born. |
| 6/29/1873 | Micheal Madhusudan Dutta, first Bengali modern poet, died. |
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