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Historical Event on 10/31/1997

Balmiki Prasad Singh takes over as Union Home Secretary. He succeeds K. Padmanabhaiah.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/27/1919Kandukuri Veeresalingam, father of modern Telgu language, author and social reformer, passed away.
4/14/1995India beats Sri Lanka to win the Asia Cricket Cup final in Sharjah.
9/8/1972Vijay Singh Chauhan sets record for decathlon by 7378/7306 points at Munich.
3/23/1898Nalinibala Devi, Assamia poet, was born.
12/20/1967Indira Gandhi gets powers to outlaw groups that question sovereignty.
8/18/1923Jamshed Khudadaad Irani, cricket wicket-keeper for India during the 1947-48 Australia tour, was born in Karachi.
7/9/1992The government agrees to set up a Joint Parliamentary Committee to enquire into the security scam.
5/9/1917Fighting breaks out at Kharkwasta in the north-west frontier of India.
1/30/1971Indian Airline's Fokker Friendship aircraft in India was hijacked to Lahore.
11/20/1981Bhaskara-II, India's second experimental remote sensing satellite, was launched by Russian launch vehicle Intercosmos. This provided experience in building and operating a remote sensing satellite system on an end-to-end basis.