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Historical Event on 5/4/1854

The first stamp was officially issued from Calcutta where the first modern post office was established.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/15/1998Naresh & Girdhari Lal Yadav win the National Enterprise sailing championship in Mumbai.
12/27/1936Golden Jublee Session of Indian National Congress, under the presidentship of Jawaharlal Nehru, held at Faizpur urging India to strike at British imperialism.
4/2/1679Aurangzeb reimposed Jizya Tax to finance the spread of Islam on the Hindus.This Jeziya tax was abolished by Akbar.
7/27/1982Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi first visited the US in almost 11 years.
3/9/1997Bezawada Gopala Reddy, 89, former Union Minister and former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, died.
2/14/199813 bomb blasts take place in Coimbatore an hour before the BJP president Advani was to address a campaign meeting; 52 people killed.
3/3/1967India signed the International Space Treaty in Moscow.
1/14/1990India and Maldives scrap visas.
10/3/1907Mansukhlal Maganlal Zaveri, famous Gujrati poet and critic, was born.
2/25/1977Second satellite Earth Station established at Dehradun.