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Historical Event on 4/1/1954

Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee became the first Indian to become the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 08/Nov/1960.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/3/1605Salim renamed himself as Jahangir and became the king of Agra.
3/21/1791Tipu Sultan capitulated to Lord Cornwallis.
3/30/1994Bombay beat Bengal by 8 wickets to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy.
12/1/1989National Front decides to form a government with outside support from the BJP and the Left Parties.
11/8/1991K.P.S. Gill reappointed DGP in Punjab.
11/11/1888Acharya Kripalani, nationalist and member of the Parliament, was born at Hyderabad, Sind.
2/19/1993German Chancellor Helmut Kohl receives the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding from the President.
5/9/1981Durga Bai Deshmukh passed away at Hyderabad. She was a social reformer, freedom fighter, planner, administrator, educationist and parliamentarian. She worked for peace, social welfare and for betterment of the downtrodden.
9/8/1910Saint Shri Gajanan Maharaj died.
12/14/199410 IAF personnel of the first batch were reinducted and the last batch left on 20th Dec 94. Cpl Nasir was left as a lying casualty due to injuries sustained in the RPG explosion.