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Historical Event on 9/30/1997
Gen. V. P. Malik takes over from Gen. Shankar Roychowdhury as Chief of Army Staff.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/30/1950 | Devdutta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar, great historian and archaeologist, passed away. |
| 12/28/1921 | Prince of Wales inagurated Victoria Memorial Hall at Calcutta. |
| 12/31/1706 | Francois Martin, founder of Pondicherry and was its first Governor General, died. He founded Pondicherry, the future capital of French India in 1674. |
| 11/12/1781 | Nagapatnam of South India was captured by the British troops. |
| 11/12/1781 | Pedro Alvaris, Portugese businessman, reached Calicut and established the first European factory in India. |
| 4/24/1966 | Margashayam Venkataramana, cricketer (Indian off-spinner 1989), was born in Secunderabad. |
| 2/28/1712 | Bahadur Shah I died at Lahore at the age of 72 in the war of succession. |
| 3/11/1994 | The Supreme Court upholds sacking of BJP Governments; Balasaheb Deoras quits as RSS Chief; Rajendra Singh alias Rajju Bhaiya to succeed. |
| 11/21/1921 | Prince of Wales visited India and Congress observed all India strike. |
| 6/30/1917 | Dr. Dadabhai Naoroji, great Indian, patriot and one of the founders of the Indian National Congress, politician and merchant, died at the age of 92. |
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