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Historical Event on 10/1/1978

In the Child Marriage Act, minimum age for marriage was raised to 21 year for males and 18 years for females.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/1/1989Shridhar Madhav Joshi (S. M. Joshi), great socialist leader, passed away.
3/6/1947Churchill opposes troop withdrawal from India at London.
4/13/1984India beat Pak by 58 runs to win the first Cricket Asia Cup in Sharjah.
4/13/1993Lalitadevi Shastri passed away.
12/13/2000All 12 battalions of the Manipur Rifles Personnel strike from work.
11/1/2000Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, Union Minister for Sports, releases the CBI report on match-fixing in New Delhi.
2/13/1989Aubrey Menen (76), Renowned writer, passed away in Kerala.
11/5/1915Balasaheb Devras, sar sanghchalak of RSS, was born.
1/1/1948Orissa High Court was established at Cuttack for Orissa territory.
5/2/1907Riots break out in Rawalpindi and East Bengal, spreading to the Punjab.