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Historical Event on 7/31/1658

Aurangzeb appoints himself Mongol emperor.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/21/1930Anand Bakshi, famous lyrisist, was born.
8/6/1905Chittaranjan Das ""Desh Bandhu"", freedom fighter and advocate, started an organisation named ""Swadeshi Mandali"". He also founded magazine named Narayana in 1914 and a Bengali weekly in 1922 and the daily 'Forward'.
10/24/1851First official telegraph line was opened between Calcutta and Daimond Harbour spanning 33.8 km.
10/24/1851Saint Gora Kumbhar, an intense devotee of the deity Vitthal at Pandharpur, took Samadhi in Ter village in Osmanabad Zilla, near Latur.
3/24/1991Bhau Samarth, internationaly famed painter, passed away.
1/15/1988Kiran More stumps five West Indian batsman at Chidambaram Stadium in Madras thus creating a world Test record.
9/20/1940Saroj Lalwani, journalist and printing press director, was born.
11/5/2000The Interpol issues a ""look-out'' notice for the five persons and two of their accomplices, who hijacked an Indian Airlines plane in December 1999
6/23/1895Kali Charan Ghosh, great Hindi writer, was born at Calcutta.
3/31/1993Major changes in exim policy announced.