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Historical Event on 7/31/1952
Bela Mitra, commander of ""Nari Vahini"" and activist of ""Azad Hind Fauj"", passed away. She also worked as partition refugee.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/30/1997 | At least 20 civilians were killed and over 30 injured in unprovoked firing by Pakistani troops on Kargil town in Jammu&Kashmir. |
| 8/15/1998 | Golden jubilee celebrations of the Indian Independence ends. |
| 12/30/1971 | Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai, famous nuclear scientist, died. |
| 2/9/1951 | The first census of free India of enumeration work was started. |
| 10/28/1999 | The Delhi High Court stays TRAI's plan to introduce free incoming calls on mobile phones from November 1. |
| 8/1/1970 | Former Beatle George Harrison led an all-star entourage of rock talent through two sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden tonight, in a benefit for Bangladesh refugees. More than 40,000 attended the concerts, and Harrison hoped to donate $250,000 to the cause. The shows opened with sets of Indian music by sitarist Ravi Shankar, then moved through songs featuring Harrison, Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, Leon Russell, and another ex-Beatle, Ringo Starr. But the evening's most ecstatic ovations were reserved for the unexpected appearance of Bob Dylan. |
| 8/4/1979 | Indian Airlines AVRO-748 crashes in to a hill near Bombay. |
| 3/21/1982 | Nadmuri Tarak Rama Rao forms Telugu Desam Party in Andhra Pradesh. |
| 8/2/1987 | Vishwanathan Anand becomes the first Asian to win the World Junior Chess championship. |
| 10/30/1976 | Elections to the lower house of the Indian Parliament suspended again until early 1978. |
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