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Historical Event on 7/31/1991

Air Chief Marshal Surinder Kumar Mehra PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC., retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command.

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9/30/1999Hindi writer Prof. Prem Shankar and Tamil scholar Ashokamitran selected for K.K. Birla Foundation Fellowships in comparative Indian literature.
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7/28/1921Congress decided to boycott the visit of Prince of Wales in India.
5/1/1926Jim Corbett killed the notorious man-eating leopard of Rudraprayag at Gulabrai village, who had attacked and killed about 125 people.
4/24/1932450 people seized by British for defying ban on Indian National Congress.
8/13/1943Chintamanrao Deshmukh was first Indian to be appointed Governor of Reserve Bank.