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Historical Event on 7/1/1985

Air Chief Marshal L M Katre, PVSM, AVSM and Bar, died in office.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/27/1958Metric system of weights and measures introduced.
8/15/1947The Defence department becomes the Ministry of Defence under a Cabinet Minister. Each service was placed under its own Commander-in-Chief. Under the Constitution, the supreme command of the Armed Forces was vested with the President.
12/16/1960Ganesh Chintaman Karve, creator of Marathi dictionary and author, passed away.
10/25/1951First General Election of India begins.
5/21/1996General Election (11th) of India ended.
1/9/1915Gandhiji reached Bombay on his return from South Africa. He became a member of the Indian National Congress. He was awarded Kaiseri-e-Hind Gold Medal for Ambulance service on Jan, 11.
12/24/1921Rabindranath Tagore established ""Visva Bharati"" at Santiniketan with Brojendra Nath Seal as the chief guest.
1/20/1988Shiv Charan Mathur sworn in as CM of Rajasthan.
1/5/1948Parthasarathy Harishchandra Sharma, cricketer (Indian batsman of the mid-70's), was born in Alwar, Rajasthan.
9/19/1950U. N. Assembly rejects Indian-Soviet proposal to admit Communist China in New York.