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Historical Event on 7/31/1997
Election Commission agrees to grant national party status to Bahujan Samaj Party but asks it to give up its election symbol--elephant.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
1/20/1988 | Shiv Charan Mathur sworn in as CM of Rajasthan. |
2/19/1891 | Amrita Bazaar Patrika became a daily newspaper. |
6/15/1986 | K. K. Tarapore, cricketer (Test for India 1948), was killed in a motor-scooter accident. |
10/3/1997 | Financial and operational autonomy to be given to 97 profit-making public sector enterprises ('mini-ratnas') other than the navaratnas. |
5/1/2000 | Bidyut Ganguly (64), veteran CPI(M) leader and West Bengal Commerce and Industry Minister, died of severe burns in Calcutta. |
11/16/1998 | Kiran More, former Indian stumper, calls it a day from first class cricket at Baroda. |
1/10/1922 | Museum of Prince of Wales, situated at Mumbai, opened for public. |
8/9/1970 | Trailokyanath Chakravarty died in Delhi. |
12/29/1844 | W.C. Bonerjee, first President of the Indian National Congress, was born in Kidderpore, Calcutta. |
1/2/1993 | Allahabad court allows 'darshan' at Ayodhya. |
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