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Historical Event on 8/1/1988

Air Chief Marshal Surinder Kumar Mehra PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/July/1991.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/10/1998Geet Sethi retains National billiards title in Calcutta.
6/11/1996Narasimha Rao's name figures in fresh FIR on bribing JMM MPs case.
6/24/1991Pranab Mukherjee appointed Dy. Chairman of the Planning Commission.
10/26/1930Dr. Waldemar Modecal Haffkine, famous scientist, bacteriologist and professor, died in Paris. He had invented the Cholera vaccine in 1893 and a vaccine for Plague in 1897 at the Grant Medical College, Bombay.
12/27/1996Mahashweta Devi, Bengali litterateur, win the Gyanpith Award.
12/20/1969Nihalsingh Gurumukh, former Chief Minister of Dehli and Governor of Rajasthan, died.
9/12/1994UN Secretary General Ghali visits New Delhi.
8/2/1993Seven JD (A) rebel MPs admitted to Congress (I).
7/12/1949Dutch KLM Constellation crashes near Bombay, 45 die.
3/21/1997Seven Kashmiri Pandits gunned down by militants in Sangrampura.