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Historical Event on 12/31/1998

Air Chief Marshal Satish Kumar Sareen PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC, retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/12/1967U. Thant,UN Secretary General, receives the first Nehru Award for international understanding.
2/20/1987Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh becomes the 23rd and 24th states of Indian Union.
8/29/1956India gets $ 360 million loan as food aid.
4/2/1980Raj Narain expelled from Lok Dal forms Janata (S) Party.
1/24/1950Dr. Rajendra Prasad was elected to become the first President of India and 'Jana Gana Mana....' was accepted as the National Anthem of the country.
8/29/1984Indian Airlines Boeing 737 with 68 passengers and a crew of 6 hijacked in Lahore.
5/31/1947Gandhiji declares that peace must precede partition, and he would not be party to India's vivisection.
6/29/1873Micheal Madhusudan Dutta, first Bengali modern poet, died.
9/1/1908Amir Elahi, right-hand batsman and right-arm leg-break bowler, born at Multan in Lahore.
8/30/1992The first Indian-built ALH (Advanced Light Helicopter) successfully flown in Bangalore.