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Historical Event on 4/1/1954

Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee became the first Indian to become the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 08/Nov/1960.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/14/1999Fifth National Games inaugurated at Imphal.
5/9/1996J. Jayalalitha, Tamil Nadu CM, resigns.
9/6/1995Meenatai Thackrey, social worker and Matoshree of Shivsainik's, passed away.
5/5/1903Tirupur Subramaniam Avinashilingam Chettiar, freedom fighter, educationist and politician, was born at Tirupur (Tamil Nadu).
4/22/1840James Princes, British research scientist and archeaologist, passed away.
4/4/1898Hiralal Sen and his brother Motilal Sen purchased a Bioscope Cinematographic Machine from London. The first show of imported films was arranged by them at Classic Theatre on April 4, after which they formed 'The Royal Bioscope Co.,' controlled by H. L. Sen & Bros., 85/2, Maszid Badi Street, Calcutta. The Bioscope Company started touring the provinces of Bengal, Orissa and Bihar.
2/28/1918Srinivas Ramanujan, famous Indian scientist, was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.
3/1/1905Karmaveer Bhausaheb Hire was born.
1/15/1918K.C.D. Brahaspati, great poet, playwright and orientalist, was born at Rampur, UP.
8/6/1996SC asks Harshad Mehta to pay Rs. 217 crore to I.T. department.