1 June - India on this day40 events

William Carey, Ward and Marshman established the Serampore College in Bengal.

V. Shantaram, S. Fattehlal (Sheikh Syed Fattehlal), Vishnupant Damle and Keshavrao B. Dhaiber, alongwith Sita Ram Kulkami, founded the 'Prabhat Film Company' at Kolhapur.

Tata Fundamental Research Institute was established.

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Academy established at Satara.

S.K. Datta became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 31/07/93).

Ghulam Rasool Wani, National Conference leader, kidnapped and shot dead by militants at Kaskot in Doda district, Jammu.

Nava Paisa, established in 1947, was renamed as 'Paisa'.

Fortnightly 'Bal Sanmitra' was published.

Continental Publication' started.

Lokmanya Tilak roared ''Freedom is by birthright'' at Ahmednagar.

Satyendranath Tagore, Bengali officer and litterateur, was born.

Sri Seeripi Anjaneyulu, journalist, social reformer and educationist, was born at Dharmavaram, Anantapur.

Justice Savyasachi Mukherjee was born.

Baba Adhav was born.

Balbhimraj Gore, litterateur and Hindi critic, was born.

Rashid Ghulam Muhammad Patel, cricketer (Indian pace bowler, better known for Lamba incident), was born in Sabarkantha.

Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act was enforced. This act was passed in 1969.

Madras General Post Office started functioning.

A treaty was signed between Marathas, Britishers and Nizam.

East India Company was dissolved.

Four Language panel were used for Rangoon. This panel had languages namely Burmese, Urdu, Tamil and Chinese.

India's Untouchability (Offence) Act comes into force.

The Chinese occupy Tibet and Dalai Lama flees to India.

National Aeronautical Research Laboratory (NARL) set up under CSIR with temporary offices in New Delhi. Dr. P. Nilakantan is appointed NARL's first Director.

Space Commission and Department of Space was set up. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) brought under Department of Space (DOS).

New postal rates effective; post card-25 p, inland letter-Re.1, envelope-Rs.2 and Registration-Rs.10.

Union Minister for Forests and Environment, Prof. Saifuddin Soz announces Rs. 9 crore central package for afforestation and eco-development in J&K.

Petrol price is raised by Re.1 per litre.

First Indian luxurious fast train 'Deccan Queen' started from Victoria Terminus (CST) to Pune.

M. V. Dhurandhar, famous master painter of Maharashtra, passed away.

Liladhar Jagudi, well known Hindi poet, passed away.

Premkumar Sharma, MLA of Bhartiya Janata Party, was assassinated.

Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, former President of India, passed away.

N.G. Ranga resigned from the Indian National Congress and took up the leadership of the newly formed Swatantra Party.

AIADMK wins Tamil Nadu Assembly election; Congress (I) wins in U.P, M.P, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab, Maharashtra and Orissa.

Burkino Faso President Blaise Campaore visits India.

Speaker disqualifies four Ajit group MPs.

Kanshi Ram (Bahujan Samaj Party) withdraws support to the Mulayam Singh Yadav-led government in UP and stakes claim to form a new government.

H.D. Deve Gowda's 21-member Central cabinet sworn in.

The Prasar Bharati Bill is introduced in the Lok Sabha to revive the Prasar Bharati Act, 1990.