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Historical Event on 4/1/1998

Prabhat Kumar, a 1963 batch IAS officer, was appointed as the new Cabinet Secretary of India. He succeeded T.S.R. Subramaniam and held the office till 31-10-2000.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/24/1789Jean C Baud, Governor General of Dutch-Indies (1834-6), was born
3/10/1926Dilbagh Singh, Air Chief Marshal, the second Sikh Chief of Air Staff and Indian Air Force, was born in Punjab.
11/23/1926Satya Sai Baba, Hindu universalist renaissance charismatic guru, educationalist and worker of miracles, was born.
4/16/1996Narasimha Rao, PM, visits Kerala (2 days).
12/9/1992More than 700 die in clashes in Ayodhya; BJP bandh partial.
1/2/1994India and Pakistan resume talks after a gap of 16 months.
11/21/1963First sounding rocket launched from Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS). Thus started India's space programme.
8/16/1997Bodo extremists kill 13 villagers in Nalbari district in Assam.
2/9/1994Supreme Court sets aside disqualification (under anti-defection law in 1991) of former Goa CM Ravi Naik.
7/20/1957India's biggest sheet-glass manufacturing factory formally opened in Hazaribagh, Bihar.