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Historical Event on 12/31/1998

Air Chief Marshal Satish Kumar Sareen PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC, retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/12/1992Kumar Gandharva (Shivputra Siddharamaiya Komkali), famous Classical singer, passed away at the age of 67.
1/22/1683Shri Samarth Ramdas passed away.
1/11/1995Kumari Anandan replaces Vazhapadi K. Ramamurthy as TNCC (I) chief.
11/13/1935Chandra Prakash Gupta, great educationist, was born at Gaini in UP.
1/18/1938The last batch of the political prisioners sailed back to the mainland from the Cellular Jail.
6/6/1997Five killed and 17 injured in a bus explosion in Gurdaspur district of Punjab.
5/25/1999India blasts its way into the global satellite launch vehicle market with the PSLV-C2 deploying two foreign satellites besides the Indian remote sensing satellite, IRS-P4.
3/12/1942British troops vacate the Andaman in Gulf of Bengal.
1/25/1989Congress-I ministry headed by S. C. Jamir assumes office in Nagaland.
4/25/1969Invalappil Mani Vijayan (or better known as IM Vijayan), Indian Soccer(Football) player, was born in Trissur, Kerala. He was recognised as Indian Player of the Year in 1993, 1997, 1999. He scored the fastest ever International goal against Bhutan at the SAF Games '99, scoring after just 12 seconds.