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Historical Event on 12/31/1998

Air Chief Marshal Anil Yashwant Tipnis, PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He is the 18th Air Chief Marshal.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/31/1920Inaugural session of the All India Trade Union Congress was conducted in Bombay.
11/2/1971Roberto Fernandes, Indian Soccer(Football) player, was born in Goa.
1/4/1958Waverley John Anderson, Scottish viscount and Governor of Bengal, died at the age of 75.
10/4/1907Riots in Calcutta.
5/17/1980V. S. Kumar Anandan sets record of balancing on one foot for continuous 33 hrs.
1/8/1993FERA restrictions removed, resident Indians allowed to keep as much as $500.
11/27/1984Percy Norris, British Deputy High Commissioner in Bombay, assassinated in Bombay.
3/15/1996Kashmiri militants and Central govt. hold talks on ending violence and to initiate the democratic process in J&K.
3/22/2000India's first third generation satellite 'Insat-3B' put in orbit by Europe's latest Ariane-5 rocket from Kourou in French Guyana.
1/28/1846British forcibly separate Kashmir from the Sikhs and sell it to the Maharaja of Jammu for 1,000,000 pounds after the Battle of Allwal.