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Important events of history that took place in India and elsewhere on today’s date.

1 June

🇮🇳 In India

1874 East India Company was formally dissolved by the East India Stock Dividend Redemption Act (1873).

1955 The Untouchability (Prevention) Act came into existence. The Act was amended on September 2, 1976, and renamed Protection of the Civil Rights Act. This Act had even stringent measures to curb untouchability.

1975 Karnam Malleswari, weightlifter who became the first Indian woman to win a medal at the Olympics in 2000, was born in Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh. In 1994, she received the Arjuna Award and in 1999, she received the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, India's highest sporting honour, and the civilian Padma Shri award.

1984 Operation Blue Star commenced. It was the codename of a military operation carried out by Indian security forces between 1 and 10 June 1984 in order to remove armed extremists from the buildings of the Golden Temple, the holiest site for Sikhs located in Amritsar, Punjab.

🌎 Elsewhere

1935 Compulsory driving tests and license plates introduced in the United Kingdom.

1938 The first issue of Action Comics, featuring Superman, was published.

1968 Helen Keller, American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer, died. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness at the age of 19 months.

1974

The Heimlich maneuver, technique developed by Henry Heimlich in which abdominal thrusts are used to stop choking, was published in the journal Emergency Medicine.

1980 The first 24-hour news television station, CNN, launched in Georgia, United States.

2001 Crown Prince Dipendra, the heir to the throne of Himalayan kingdom of Nepal massacres the royal family before turning the gun on himself.

2021 Prehistoric carvings, between 4,000 and 5,000 years old depicting deer, found in Scotland for the first time at Kilmartin Glen, Argyll.

⭐ Significance

World Milk Day is an international day established by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to recognize the importance of milk as a global food. It has been observed on June 1 each year since 2001.

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