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Historical Event on 1/1/1988

The Officers Training School (OTS) was re-christened as Officers Training Academy. Besides training Indian nationals, 74 cadets from Sri Lanka have also been trained at the OTA.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/5/1951Abanindranath Tagore, a great Modern Indian Painter, passed away.
2/6/1959Ann Chandy was appointed the first Woman judge of Kerala High Court. In 1937, she became the 'munsif'.
9/10/1992All movable and immovable properties of big bull Harshad Mehta, and others involved in the Security scam, attached.
11/18/1901V. Shantaram alias Shantaram Rajaram Vankudre, famous film maker and actor (Chitrapat Maharashi), was born.
10/27/2000The Vajpayee Government 'clears' the names of Surjit Singh Barnala, Prabhat Kumar and Dinanath Tiwari for appointment as the Governors of the new States of Uttaranchal, Jharkhand and Chhatisgarh respectively.
8/14/1968Week-long flood death toll reaches 1,000.
8/14/1968Chandbibi made treaty with Murad and gave 'Varhad' area to Mughals.
8/14/1968Surdas (1483-1563), blind Hindi bard and singer of Agra whose hymns to Krishna are compiled in the 'Sursagar', was born in Sihi village near Delhi.
8/29/1931Gandhi arrives in London for second Round Table Conference on India.
8/18/1920Harbhajan Singh, educationist and writer, was born at Lumding.