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Historical Event on 4/1/1995

Open General Licence (OGL) list expanded from 43 to 75 as import of consumer goods liberalised.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/17/1997Cochin Stock Exchange goes online.
10/28/1996Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever (DHF) spills into Western UP from Delhi.
9/30/1997Gen. V. P. Malik takes over from Gen. Shankar Roychowdhury as Chief of Army Staff.
12/11/1998Kavi Pradeep (84), poet who received 1998 Dadasaheb Phalke award, dies in Mumbai. He was a patriotic song writer and wrote several immortal Hindi film songs.
10/26/1934Akhil Bharatiya Gramin Udyog Sangh (All India Small Scale Industries Association) was founded and inaugrated by Mahatma Gandhi.
4/4/1938A. M. Chakrabarty was born in Sainthia at West Bengal. He found that under the optimum conditions of time, temperature and nutrients the Hydrocarbon-eating "qualities'' of four diffrent strains of bacteria could be transferred into one. He also showed that this super-strain of bacteria reproduces itself.
1/3/1917Kartarsingh Duggal, famous Punjabi story-writer and novelist, was born.
7/11/1998The Government reduces customs duty on edible oils under the Open General Licence from 20 to 10 per cent.
12/5/1959K. S. Duleepsinhji, cricketer (12 Tests for England, 995 runs), passed away.
3/11/1963First Railway Engine was produced by Chittaranjan Railway Factory.