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Historical Event on 8/1/1997

Lt. Gen. Ved Prakash Malik to be next chief of Army staff. Gen. Shankar Roy Chowdhury retires on September 30.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/29/1962Haryana achieved their target of supplying electricity to 100\% villages.
5/2/1769Sir John Malcom, former Governor of Mumbai and historian, was born.
5/19/1991About 20 crore voters go to the polls in the first phase of election in 204 constituencies of the 10th Lok Sabha.
10/21/1943Azad Hind Government was established in Singapore and Netaji Subhashchandra Bose was elected as its national leader.
8/27/1910Mother Teresa, [Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu], nobel Prize awardee and social worker, was born in Skopje, Macedonia in Yugoslavia.
8/28/1934Justice Sujata Manohar was born.
10/31/1991Karsevaks' hoist flags on Masjid in Ayodhya.
8/22/1993The first batch of IAF troops landed in the capital city of Mogadishu.
11/19/1998A. B. Vajpayee approves formation of the National Security Council, a new high-power hub, to give policy directions to safeguard the country's security.
11/19/199824 merchants gathered in London's Founder Hall under the auspices of Lord Mayor to start a new company with a share captial in India.