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Historical Event on 8/1/1988

Air Chief Marshal Surinder Kumar Mehra PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/July/1991.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/9/1994C. Rajeshwara Rao, 80, former General Secretary of Communist Party of India, passed away in Hyderabad.
5/14/1996H.D. Deve Gowda elected leader of the third front as its prime ministerial candidate.
7/25/1987Ramaswamy Venkataraman became the eighth President of India. He held this office till July 25, 1992.
3/31/1997The Bombay Stock Exchange crashes by 300 points.
11/28/1998The Congress(I) wins the Assembly elections in Delhi, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.
2/7/1687Mughal army won the Gowalkonda fort. Kutubshahi came to end.
8/25/1996194 pilgrims die of cold at the cave temples of Amarnath .
9/11/1895Vinoba Bhave (real name Vinayak Narhari Bhave), great Gandhian Acharya, was born at Ganoda village of Maharashtra.
8/5/1992The Supreme Court appoints a 3-member panel to visit Ayodhya and report on the new structures there.
9/10/1923Sukumar Roy, famous Bengali child litterateur, passed away.