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Historical Event on 7/31/1658

Aurangzeb appoints himself Mongol emperor.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/11/1933First edition of weekly ""Harijan"" edited by Mahatma Gandhi was published from Pune in English and Hindi.
10/4/1972Raman Vijayan, Indian soccer (Football) player, was born in Kandramanikam at Pasumpon, Tamil Nadu.
6/24/1986Government announced that unmarried mothers under its employment would also get maternity leave.
12/23/1889Mehr Chand Mahajan, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born.
5/19/1971Indian Navy's first submarine station started at 'Veer Bahu' in Visakhapatanam.
8/26/1984An Indian Airlines Boeing with 68 passengers and a crew of six hijacked to Lahore. The 12 Sikh hijackers then surrendered to the authorities in the U.A.E and released all the passengers.
11/19/1961World Council of Churches convened their third assembly at New Delhi during which the International Missionary Council and its work was integrated into the larger ecumenical group.
4/6/1998The Sonia Gandhi era begins in the Congress(I) with a special AICC session ratifying the decision of the CWC appointing her president in place of Sitaram Kesri.
1/9/1935Harishankar Sharma, great educationist, was born at Jaipur.
1/22/1903Shankar Das Banerji, lawyer and politician, was born at Calcutta.