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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.

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9/18/2000President K. R. Narayanan presents the Dada Saheb Phalke award for the year 1999 to film maker Hrishikesh Mukherjee.
2/25/1992Railway budget proposes 20\% hike in upper class passenger fares.
6/11/1946Viceroy interviewed Gandhiji, and mooted proposal of Coalition Government at Centre.
10/26/1961Heavy fighting flared up between India and Communist China in their three-year-old dispute over border lines in the Himalayas. Each side accused the other of initiating the fighting that began along the Tibetan border early in October.
1/30/1971Indian Airline's Fokker Friendship aircraft in India was hijacked to Lahore.
6/8/1997Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, Assam Chief Minister, has a narrow escape as a powerful remote-controlled bomb exploded in Maligaon area of Guwahati.
5/15/1729Khanderao Dabhade, great warrior in Maratha kingdom, passed away.
4/20/1989R. S. Pathak, Chief Justice of India, elected to the World Court.