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Historical Event on 1/16/1973

Om Prakash Mehra, Air Chief Marshal PVSM, became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/01/1976.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/23/1992Indian-designed pilotless target aircraft 'Lakshya' successfully tested.
5/31/1997Fourth National Games opened at Bangalore.
7/26/2000The Centre imposes a ban on employing children belowing 14 years as domestic servants by all Government employees in the All India services at the insistence of the NHRC.
9/6/1905Satyacharan Chaterjee, great Indian Geologist, was born.
1/21/1996Lakshmi Parvati elected president of Telugu Desam NTR faction.
12/14/1998The Supreme Court allows Karnataka to begin skeletal work on erection of 26 crest gates at the Almatti dam on the Krishna at ''its own risk and cost'', but directs it not to raise the dam height beyond the present 509 metres.
1/27/1989M. Karunanidhi sworn in as DMK CM in Tamil Nadu.
10/31/1990Hindus flee Muslim prorsecution in Kashmir Valley.
3/31/1999The PIO card, conferring privileges on persons of Indian origin settled abroad, is formally launched.
5/27/1930India's major cities are seething with unrest following the arrest of Mahatma Gandhi and thousands of his followers in the campaign of civil disobedience against British rule. Civil unrest in Bombay, where at least six were killed and sixty injured.