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Historical Event on 7/31/1991
Air Chief Marshal Surinder Kumar Mehra PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC., retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/9/1834 | Dr. William Carey, great writer and social worker, died. |
| 11/27/1984 | Percy Norris, British Deputy High Commissioner in Bombay, assassinated in Bombay. |
| 1/28/1984 | Sohrab Meherwanji Modi, famous drama and film producer, director and actor, passed away. |
| 3/23/1947 | Lord Mountbatten was sent as a Viceroy to India who was designated to free India. |
| 12/3/1971 | Hostilities broke out between India and Pakistan. On the very night that hostilities commenced, with Pakistan bombing several air fields, IN Ships 'Rajput' and 'Akshay' were leaving Vishakapatnam harbour when they obtained a sonar contact. They fired several depth charges and proceeded on their mission when there was no further evidence of a submarine's presence. Thereafter, a loud explosion of rattling windows panes off the Vishakapatnam beach was heard . The Pakistani submarine 'Ghazi' (a Tench class submarine obtained from the USA in 1964) had come to grief. |
| 8/20/1988 | Earthquake measuring 6.5 on Richter Scale strikes India and Nepal. Thousands killed. |
| 9/27/2000 | Venus Williams of USA claims the women's gold in the tennis event in the Sydney Olympics. |
| 6/18/1887 | Dr. Anugrah Narain Singh, freedom fighter, educationist, leader and Minister of India, was born in Poiyavan village, Gaya district, Bihar. |
| 9/8/1960 | Feroz Gandhi, a prominent member of the Lok Sabha,died in New Delhi. |
| 1/28/1999 | Central Zone won the Deodhar Trophy, defeating South in their final in Agartala. |
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