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Historical Event on 8/1/1964
Air Chief Marshal Arjan Singh, Padma Vibhushan, DFC. became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 15/07/1969.
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| 8/1/1922 | Ratilal Sankalchand Nayak, educationist and writer, was born at Kadi, Gujarat . |
| 12/11/1938 | Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi, famous Hindi litterateur and editor, passed away. |
| 2/26/1984 | Satellite Insat 1-B dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. |
| 8/29/1994 | Tusharkanti Ghosh, world famous Indian journalist, passed away. |
| 1/9/1664 | Shivaji started Surat campaign and left the city after plundering the place. |
| 7/5/2000 | The Prime Minister rules out restoring pre-1953 status to Jammu and Kashmir. |
| 1/6/1959 | Kapildev Ramlal Nikhanj, cricketer (India's finest all-rounder 1978-94, Cup-1982), was born in Chandigarh. |
| 1/12/1934 | Surya Sen (Master Da), revolutionary leader of the Indian Republican Army, who attacked the armoury of Chittagong with 62 men of the Indian Republican Army, was hanged at Chittgong Jail by the Britishers. |
| 7/27/1991 | Army called out in Srinagar valley after an attack on security forces in which 17 persons were killed. |
| 12/12/1955 | The President promulgated an ordinance providing the usage of Hindi with English for official purposes of Indian Union. B.G. Kher Commission (under article 344(I) of the Constitution) constituted. Hindi Teaching Scheme was introduced under Ministry of Home Affairs. |
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