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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
7/31/1991Babur won the first Panipat battle and entered in North India's capital Agra.
6/19/2000Salgocar wins the Pondicherry Millennium All India Football tournament in Pondicherry.
11/25/1998Nitish Kumar, Railway Minister, lays the foundation stone for the Chengalpattu-Arakkonam gauge conversion in Kancheepuram. The Kanchi Shankaracharyas stay away from the function following a controversy triggered over the invitation extended to them by the Railways.
12/22/1866Mazharul Haque, great social reformer, nationalist, journalist, poet, writer and politician, was born at Bahpura, Bihar.
8/1/1997Nitin Mongia wins Laser standard in sailing championship in Hyderabad.
3/9/1897Fans start calling the team 'Indians' (in 1915 it became official).
2/14/1755Raghuji Bhosle, great fighter of Bhosle gharana in Nagpur, passed away.
1/29/1977Judge Mirza Hameedullah Beg became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 21/02/1978.
10/19/1983Prof. Subramanyam Chandrasekhar shares the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with fellow American Prof. William Fowler.
4/14/1963Maha Pandit Rahul Sanskrityayan, great Hindi writer, politician and professor, passed away at Darjeeling.