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Historical Event on 8/1/1964

Air Chief Marshal Arjan Singh, Padma Vibhushan, DFC. became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 15/07/1969.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/18/1945Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose left Saigon and is believed to have died in a Japanese aeroplane crash at Taihoku Airport in Taiwan.
9/14/1953Andhra Pradesh was established. Hyderabad became the capital instead of Karnul.
11/9/1909The Times reports failure of Gandhi Government negotiations on Transvaal laws.
3/5/1931Mahatma Gandhi & British viceroy Lord Irwin sign a pact referred in Indian History as ""Gandhi-Irwin Pact"", after which the civic disobedience movement was taken back.
1/19/2000Railways retains the Lady Ratan Trophy Women's National Hockey championship.
8/7/1990Govt. of India accepts the Mandal Commission's recommendations and decides to reserve 27\% jobs for the backward classes. Violent protests rock parts of Northern India against Mandal Commission.
6/16/1990GOI announces higher procurement/minimum support prices for all major kharif crops.
1/9/1971Muslim leader Sheik Mohammed Abdullah was barred from returning to Kashmir.
2/23/1952Employees Provident Fund Bill and Miscellaneous Provision Act passed in the Lok Sabha.
8/23/1994Former prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif said that Pakistan possessed a nuclear bomb and warned that an attack by India could start a nuclear war in Pakistan.