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Historical Event on 8/1/1993
Air Chief Marshal Swaroop Krishna Kaul PVSM, MVC, ADC., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/Dec/1995.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/5/1991 | Sarkaria report accepted. |
| 9/9/1981 | Phiroz Edulji Palia, cricketer (two Tests for India, 29 runs & 0/13), died. |
| 1/16/1620 | Amarsingh I, Rajput's guhilot lineage king of Mewad, died. |
| 1/6/1989 | Satwant Singh (24) and Kehar Singh (54) executed for the murder case of Smt. Indira Gandhi in Tihar Jail at New Delhi. |
| 11/7/1862 | Bahadurshah Jafar -II died at Rangoon in British prision. |
| 5/13/1996 | Lok Sabha election results (534 out of 537) announced, giving BJP (161) the position of the largest single party. |
| 12/17/1987 | Bhopal court orders the Union Carbide to pay Rs. 350 crore as interim relief to 1984 gas victims. |
| 3/1/1989 | Vasantdada Banduji Patil, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra and Governor of Rajasthan, passed away. |
| 9/18/1803 | Puri was captured by Britishers from the Marathas without any struggle. |
| 3/17/1988 | First operational Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1A) launched by a Russian Vostok. IRS system under National Natural Resources Management System (NNRMS) coordinated at national level by the Planning Committee of NNRMS (PC-NNRMS) and the data from IRS satellites is processed by the National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad. SI, a US Company, also receives and markets IRS data worldwide under a commercial contract with Antrix Corporation of the Department of Space. |
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