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Historical Event on 10/31/1997
Balmiki Prasad Singh takes over as Union Home Secretary. He succeeds K. Padmanabhaiah.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/15/1984 | Extremist Sikhs plunder 40 stations in Punjab, India. |
| 12/14/1953 | Vijay Amritraj, great Indian tennis player and actor (Octopussy), was born. |
| 4/30/1999 | Jessica Lal, model and TV personality, was murdered in a crowded south Delhi restaurant. |
| 3/25/1989 | India's first super-computer X-MP-14 of US make was dedicated to the nation. |
| 7/17/1948 | Govt. announced that all discriminations against women in matter of employment will be done away with and in future, women will be eligible for any public service including administrative sevice and police service. |
| 10/19/1929 | Balbir Singh, India field hockey player (Olympic gold 1948-56), was born. |
| 1/2/1990 | Capt. Nivedita Bhasin, 26, becomes the youngest woman pilot in world civil aviation history to command a jet aircraft. |
| 8/11/1911 | Prem Bhatia, great journalist, was born. |
| 4/17/1999 | The Vajpayee Government resigns after it loses the confidence vote in the Lok Sabha by one vote - 269 to 270. |
| 3/2/1990 | DMK Front to form government in Pondicherry and Congress (I) in Maharashtra. |
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