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Historical Event on 7/31/1997

Election Commission agrees to grant national party status to Bahujan Samaj Party but asks it to give up its election symbol--elephant.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/15/1817Battle of Yerwada.
2/4/1991An abortive bid to hijack a Calcutta-Agartala flight by a 24-year old youth.
11/3/1998The first geo-scientific data centre of the country is inaugurated at the Geological Survey of India.
5/12/1992Ms. Santosh Yadav (Indo-Tibetan Border Police) becomes the second Indian woman to set foot atop Mt. Everest.
8/5/1939In the first case to be brought under Prohibition laws, a railroad passenger was today convicted of possessing a bottle of brandy in Bombay.
1/8/1947Rajasthan University established at Jaipur.
1/1/1986Fourth Pay Commission implemented.
3/23/1923Shekh Mubarak Ali Ayaj, Sindhi litterateur, was born.
8/21/2000Uma Bharti, the sanyasin Member of Parliament of the BJP, resigns from the Lok Sabha and the party's national executive comittee.
8/17/1958Sir John Hubert Marshal, excavator of Mohan-Jo-Daro and Takshashila, died.