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Historical Event on 8/1/1993

Air Chief Marshal Swaroop Krishna Kaul PVSM, MVC, ADC., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/Dec/1995.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/29/1979Delhi beat Karnataka by 399 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy.
8/1/1996Madhu Dandavate is made Dy. Chairman, Planning Commission.
9/1/1995Chandrababu Naidu assumes office as the new CM of Andhra Pradesh.
9/13/1990An attempt to hijack a Coimbatore-Bangalore-Madras Indian Airlines flight IC 534 to Sri Lanka.
6/1/1959N.G. Ranga resigned from the Indian National Congress and took up the leadership of the newly formed Swatantra Party.
9/7/1999India rejects Pakistan demand for a East Timor type of referendum in Kashmir.
6/16/1925Chittaranjan Das, great freedom fighter, revolutionary, orator, poet, journalist and lawyer, died.
10/26/1990V. Shantaram, veteran film producer, director and Dadasaheb Phalke awardee, died at the age of 90 years in Bombay.
11/22/1993Gulshen Ahmed, Himachal Governor, resigns in the wake of an official report that he canvassed for his son in Satna.
2/5/1986Laxmanrao Sardesai, famous Marathi and Konkani litterateur, passed away.