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Historical Event on 1/31/1976
Air Chief Marshal Om Prakash Mehra, PVSM, retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/16/1958 | Raghuram Adwai Bhat, great Indian left-arm spinner 1983-84, was born at Mangalore. |
| 1/1/1948 | Orissa High Court was established at Cuttack for Orissa territory. |
| 4/30/1996 | CBI concludes after 11 1/2 years of investigation that no espionage has taken place in what was dubbed the `ISRO spy scandal case'. |
| 10/27/2000 | The Vajpayee Government 'clears' the names of Surjit Singh Barnala, Prabhat Kumar and Dinanath Tiwari for appointment as the Governors of the new States of Uttaranchal, Jharkhand and Chhatisgarh respectively. |
| 3/13/1857 | Lord William Pit, Governer General of India (1823-28), passed away. |
| 1/21/1922 | Juda Reuben, cricket Test umpire for 10 tests from 1969-77, was born in Mumbai. |
| 8/14/1920 | Rushikesh Mulgaonkar, Air Chief Marshal (1976-78), was born. |
| 9/12/1995 | Heavy rainfall in the Himalaya region, resulting in landslide, claimed 70 lives near Kullu. |
| 3/1/1997 | India under-19 team wins third `Test', claims three-test series 2-0 win in Matara. |
| 9/25/1990 | Prafull Chandra Sen, former Chief Minister of West Bengal and Gandhian leader, died in Calcutta. He was 94 years old. |
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