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Historical Event on 3/31/1997

The Bombay Stock Exchange crashes by 300 points.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/18/1991Kerala declared the first fully literate state in the country.
1/22/1901Queen Victoria (1819-1901) passed away at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, South England, after a brief illness. She had been throned for almost 64 years, which is the longest reign in British history. She had given her name to an age ""Victorian Britain"".
12/22/1995A Russian-made AN-26 plane forced to land in Bombay following an Intelligence Bureau tip off that it could be the suspected aircraft which dropped arms at Purulia.
12/13/2000Vikram Sood is appointed new RAW Chief.
3/25/1997Justice Jagdish Saran Verma sworn in Chief Justice of India.
6/11/1991Forty die in rioting in Srinigar, Kashmir.
11/1/1992The Superfast Rajdhani Express train linking Bangalore and Nizamuddin (2,452 km) flagged off.
8/17/1998National Human Rights Commission recommends compulsory registration of marriages in a bid to check child marriages.
10/6/1990Justice Ranganath Mishra sworn in as Chief Justice of Supreme Court.
6/28/1857Nana Sahib proclaimed himself as the Peshwa and called for the total extermination of the British power of India at Bithoor.