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Historical Event on 8/1/1964
Air Chief Marshal Arjan Singh, Padma Vibhushan, DFC. became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 15/07/1969.
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| 6/16/1997 | P. Sukumaran (50), Malayalam film actor, died in Kochi. |
| 2/17/1994 | Former US Congressman Stephan Solarz named Ambassador of India. |
| 2/15/1924 | Mahinder Singh, social worker, was born at Amritsar. |
| 9/11/1906 | Gandhiji addressed a mass meeting of Indians at Johannesburg, where they took oath of passive resistance against the newly promulgated 'Transvaal Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance'. |
| 3/22/1907 | Perturbed by a new law restricting Asiatic immigrants, Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian attorney now living in South Africa, organized a campaign of civil disobedience to resist the statute popular bill passed by the new Boer government of the Transvaal Colony. The Asiatic Registration Bill was considered by Gandhi unjust and discriminatory to the large Chinese and Indian populations. However, the government expressed the belief that the ordinance was popular. ""Over 90 percent of the white people thoroughly approve of it,"" said Sir Gilbert Parker, a Conservative member of Parliament. |
| 9/18/1992 | M. Hidayatullah, former Vice President and Chief Justice, died. He was 87. |
| 3/11/1784 | Tipu Sultan and Britishers signed the treaty at Mangalore which is known as the Mangalore treaty. |
| 12/23/1995 | 400 people, mostly children and their parents, die in a fire that broke out during the Annual Day celebrations of DAV Public School. The fire was suspected to be caused due to electric short-circuit in Mandi Dabwali, Haryana. |
| 9/27/1977 | Sanjiva Reddy was elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha. Government revokes the external emergency promulgated on December 3, 1971. |
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