On This Day
1 April
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1855 Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's first Bengali primer Barnaparichay was published. This is considered as "the most influential primer of Bengal".
- 1930 The Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929, which fixed the age of marriage for girls at 14 years and boys at 18 years, came into effect in British India.
- 1935 India's central banking institution, The Reserve Bank of India, was formed.
- 1936 Orissa was constituted as a province of British India with addition of Koraput and Ganjam from the Madras Presidency. The state's name was officially changed from Orissa to Odisha in 2011. The formation day of the state is celebrated as Odisha Day, or Utkala Dibasa.
- 1973 Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, was launched in the Jim Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand.
- 1976 Doordarshan, which was started as part of All India Radio, was placed under the management of a separate director-general in New Delhi.
- 1987 Bureau of Indian standards (BIS) came into existence, through an act of parliament dated 26 November 1986, on 1 April 1987, with a broadened scope and more powers taking over the staff, assets, liabilities and functions of erstwhile ISI.
- 2007 Laurie Baker, British-born architect, died in India at age 90. He spent more than 60 years in India building homes that were ecologically sound and affordable for the poor.
- 2010 India began a yearlong census of its billion-plus population in which it plans to photograph and fingerprint every citizen over the age of 15 to create a national database and then issue its first national identity cards called Aadhar Cards.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1578 English physician William Harvey, who discovered the true nature of the circulation of the blood, was born in Folkestone, Kent.
- 1748 Ruins of Pompeii were rediscovered by Spaniard Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre.
- 1854 Charles Dickens's Hard Times began serialisation in his magazine Household Words.
- 1933 Nazi Germany began persecuting Jews with a boycott of Jewish-owned businesses.
- 1976 Apple Inc, the computer company, which has evolved into a multinational corporation and whose best-known product is the iPhone, was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne.
- 1979 Ayatollah Khomeini proclaimed Iran to be an Islamic Republic.
- 1999 Eleven countries in the European Union adopted the Euro as a common currency.
- 2001 The former President of Serbia was arrested on corruption charges. Later he was put on trial before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague for war crimes during the Yugoslav wars.
- 2004 Gmail was announced to the public by Google. By 2019, number of active Gmail users worldwide had grown to 1.5 billion.
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