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Historical Event on 1/31/1958

First Earth Satellite Explorer I was launched from Cape Kennedy.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/9/1997G. K. Moopanar, Tamil Maanila Congress president, and his party colleagues Jayanthi Natarajan, Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation, and Peter Alphonse, resign from Rajya Sabha membership following a petition filed by Shiv Sena member Sanjay Nirupam seeking their disqualification 'for defecting from Congress(I)'.
5/31/1988Dwarika Prasad Mishra, former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, passed away.
1/29/1853Madhusudan Rao, modern writer in Oria language, was born.
10/15/1946Victor Banerjee, actor (A Passage to India), was born in Calcutta, India.
1/11/1966Lal Bahadur Shastri was posthumously awarded the ""Bharat Ratna"".
8/28/1934Justice Sujata Manohar was born.
5/5/1932Prabhatkumar Mukhopadhyay, famous Bengali short story writer and novelist, passed away.
8/27/1994Indian soldiers and Muslim militants clash in Kashmir.
11/15/1949Nathuram Vinayak Godse and Narayan Dattatreya Apte were hanged in Ambala Jail for Gandhi's murder.
11/1/1985Helicopter Corporation of India, later renamed Pawan Hans Limited, started functioning.