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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
4/6/1955Vinayak Maharaj Masurkar, great Samarth Saint, died.
7/20/1903British to increase size of Royal Army in India.
2/6/195555 miners die in explosion in Bihar State.
6/9/1949Kiran Bedi, the first woman Indian Police Service Officer, was born in Amritsar, Punjab.
4/14/1990Over 90 persons killed in an Airbus crash in Bangalore.
9/21/1746French expeditionary army occupies Labourdonnais & Dupleix Madras.
1/8/1996Maharashtra government clears Enron Dhabol power project at a tariff of Rs. 1.86 per unit.
5/22/1996Ravi Shastri appointed UNICEF's national ambassador for children.
5/4/1994Fourth developmental launch of ASLV. 113 kg Stretched Rohini Satellite Series (SROSS-C2) was launched by fourth developmental flight of ASLV-D4 from Sriharikota. This carried two scientific payload, a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) experiment and a Retarding Potential Analyser (RPA). It is still in service.
12/25/1999An Indian Airlines aircraft with 187 passengers on board is hijacked. The plane was going from Katmandu to New Delhi. It lands near Abu Dhabi after several hops.