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Historical Event on 7/31/1988

Air Chief Marshal D A La Fontaine PVSM, AVSM, VM. retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/10/1818The last battle was fought in Rampura between the Marathas and the company.
3/30/1945Dr. J. J. Rawal, joint director of Nehru Planetarium of Mumbai, was born.
12/28/1688Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb demolishes all temples (around 1,000) in Mathura. (During their reign, Muslim rulers had destroyed roughly 60,000 Hindu temples throughout India, constructing mosques on 3,000 sites).
9/10/1924K.T. Gopalkrishnan, famous Hindi writer, was born at Azhicode.
7/4/1912Pandit Nivrittibuwa Sarnaik, singer of 'Jaypur Gharana', was born.
7/25/1977Neelam Sanjiva Reddy became the sixth President of India. His held this office till July 25, 1982.
1/24/1924Karpoori Thakur ""Jan Nayak"", freedom fighter, teacher and national president of Samyukta Socialist Party, was born in village Samastipur, District Bihar.
9/25/1946Bishan Singh Bedi, a former Indian cricketer was born.
5/23/1993PM arrives in Tashkent.
7/1/1997Voluntary Disclosure of Income Scheme `97 (VDIS) comes into effect.