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Historical Event on 7/31/1993

Air Chief Marshal Nirmal Chandra Suri PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC. retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/15/1997Prasar Bharati Act comes into force seeking to free Doordarshan and Akashvani from government control.
11/7/1907Murlidhar Shankar Deshpande, journalist and social worker, was born at Kadanachi Girvi Phaltan, Maharashtra.
12/15/1894Saraswatibai, famous singer and classical music expert, was born.
8/15/1950Earthquake measuring 8.6 on Richter Scale hits Assam in north eastern India claiming 11,000 lives.
10/9/1963Saifuddin Azizuddin Kitchlew, freedom fighter, President of Punjab and the first Indian to win the Lenin Award for International Peace, died.
5/9/1874First horse-drawn tram car started running in Mumbai.
9/2/1984Thousands of Sikhs rally at Golden Temple to protest govt. occupation in Amritsar.
4/22/1958Admiral R. T. Katari was appointed as the first Indian Chief of the Naval Staff.
5/16/1975Sikkim annexed principality and was declared as the 22nd state of Indian Union.
7/25/1961Delhi upgraded as an A-class city on the basis of provisional Census figures of 1961.