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Historical Event on 1/31/1998

D. R. Karthikeyan became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 31/03/98).

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/14/196985 persons were killed when a freight train collided with a passanger train near Jaipur.
4/4/1999India routed China 5-0 in the Davis Cup Asia Oceania Group I second round play-off in Calcutta.
8/29/1959India sends troops to Tibet border to block the Chinese.
12/19/1857The trial on Raja Nahar Singh, who was arrested and then was prisioned at Metcalfe House, began on Saturday at 1100 hrs at Delhi.
1/19/1992Manvendra Mukherji, famous singer and music director, passed away.
10/10/1990Marxist extremists set fire to a crowded train in Andhra Pradesh killing more than 60.
1/23/1897Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, great nationalist leader and freedom fighter, was born at Cuttack. At the age of 23, he was ranked fourth in the I.C.S. Examination in London and fought against the British with his Azad Hind Fauj in the second World War.
3/28/1914Komagata Maru sailed from Hong Kong to Vancouver with 351 Sikhs and 21 Punjabi Muslim youths under the captaincy of Sardar Gurjeet Singh as a part of 'Ghadar' Movement.
11/2/1999BJP suffers jolt in Bihar as it fails to win a single seat it contested in the October 28 poll to four Lok Sabha seats.
5/29/1933Gandhi ends his 21-day fast, his second for the cause of the 'untouchables'.