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Historical Event on 1/30/1997

Fifth Pay Commission submits proposals; minimum salary Rs. 2440 pm and maximum 26,000. Cabinet Secretary 30,000; six-day week; retirement at 60, etc. proposed.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/31/199426 die as cyclone lashes Tamil Nadu.
2/11/1993Naik sacks six ministers in Maharashtra.
8/14/1987Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan (1890-1988), Frontier Gandhi. He is the first non-Indian to receive this honour.
5/14/1960The first plane of India flew upto New York.
8/11/1956The Lok Sabha passed the States Reorganisation Act.
12/1/1928The first talkie filmshow, named as 'British Talkies' , was released on December 1, 1928, at Globe Theatres, Calcutta.
5/17/19764 Indians successfully skied down from the slope of Trishul peak.
2/19/1992An all-time low turn out of about 30\% registered in the Punjab Assembly polls.
8/10/1930In the 'Gandhi Cap Case' in Guntur, the magistrate prohibits wearing of Gandhi caps within a five-mile radius of the town.
11/13/1909Gandhiji left England for South Africa and wrote ''Hind Swaraj'' on board S.S. Kildonan Castle.