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Historical Event on 8/1/1994

Surendra Singh was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-07-1996.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/3/1912M. Varadarajan, educationist and author, was born at Tirupattur.
11/27/1984Percy Norris, British Deputy High Commissioner in Bombay, assassinated in Bombay.
1/3/1921First Indian Parliament meets.
2/27/1956G. V. Mavlankar, first speaker of Lok Sabha, passed away.
5/1/1992Seperate secretariat was established for primary education.
3/14/1995Keshubai Patel (Gujarat), J.B. Patnaik (Orissa) and Manohar Joshi, the 12th (Maharashtra) CMs, elected.
1/14/1998Prof. Amartya Kumar Sen, Economist, is sworn in new Master of the Trinity College. He is the first Asian to head a Cambridge College.
7/3/1979Construction of the main second Howrah Bridge (Vidyasagar Setu) started.
11/8/1947Junagadh accedes to India. Addresses A.I.C.C.
5/6/1971D. Sen became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 29/03/77).