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Historical Event on 1/31/1963

Peacock declared as National Bird of India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/12/1993RBI liberalises credit and monetary policy.
9/24/1777Sarfoji Bhosle, king of Tanjawar, was born.
5/10/1857India's real mutiny begins with the revolt of Sepoys of Meerut near Delhi the next day.
2/8/1999Gen. K. Sundarji (69), former Chief of Army Staff, died in New Delhi.
11/25/1948National Cadet Corps was first established.
1/11/1999Four DRDO scientists and four pilots aboard an Avro plane on a research test flight are killed as the plane crashes after take-off from the Arakkonam INS Rajali Naval air base in Tamil Nadu.
5/31/1756Jose Cusodio Faria was born in Candolim of Goa. He was a revolutionary scientist and also known as Abbe Faria.
9/12/1995Heavy rainfall in the Himalaya region, resulting in landslide, claimed 70 lives near Kullu.
11/6/1997Supreme Court acquits former Union Minister for Power and Food Kalpanath Rai held under TADA for alleged harbouring of an accused in ""1992 Bombay J.J. Hospital shootout case'
8/1/1955Arun Lal, cricketer (Indian batsman in sixteen Tests 1982-89), was born in Moradabad, U.P.