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Historical Event on 1/31/1969

Saint Meherbaba passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/31/1947Gandhiji declares that peace must precede partition, and he would not be party to India's vivisection.
1/11/1986Union Government declares Ladakh a Scheduled Tribe area under a constitutional amendment order by the President, applying article 342 for the first time to J&K.
8/16/1997Bodo extremists kill 13 villagers in Nalbari district in Assam.
12/19/1860Lord Dalhousie, Governor General of India (1848-1856), died.
11/9/1960Subroto Mukherji, first Air Chief Marshall of Indian Air Force, suddenly died.
7/12/1980Congress (I) gets absolute majority in Rajya Sabha.
7/22/1918During the First World War, India's first fighter pilot Indra Lal Rai's plane was shot down in battle by Germans planes near London. Rai had fought for Britisher's Force.
10/21/1959Chinese and Indian troops clash on Ladakh border.
9/2/1956Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India).
10/22/1796Sawai Madhav Rao Peshwa II committed suicide by jumping from the terrace.