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Historical Event on 3/31/1994

U.R. Rao, retiring ISRO Chairman, announces agreement with Russia for supplying 7 cryogenic engines.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/29/1658Dara Shukoh was utterly defeated by Aurangzeb in the battle of Samugarh near Agra.
2/19/1993German Chancellor Helmut Kohl receives the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding from the President.
11/9/1999Prof. Romila Thapar, historian, is elected to the highest British academic honour.
3/22/1793Lord Cornwallis promulgated permanent settlement in Bengal and Bihar to fix the revenue amounts once and for all to be paid by the zamindars every year.
11/13/1999Punjab Police men, Railways women emerged Federation Cup basketball champions in Jalandhar.
5/22/1927M. S. Shivsankaraiyah, cricket test umpire for 3 tests from 1974-77, was born at Andhra Pradesh.
7/1/1991Rupee devalued by 8.5\%.
4/30/1958Shiekh Abdulla taken into custody.
4/5/1950Spurred by recent clashes in East and West Bengal between Muslims and Hindus, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his Pakistani couterpart Ali Khan today reached agreement on a ""Bill of Rights for Minorities"". This bill included a provision for ""drumhead justice,"" or summary justice to persons convicted of violating minority rights.
8/1/1879Achyut Balwant Kolhatkar, famous litterateur and journalist, was born.