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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
7/17/1996Madras to be known as 'Chennai' henceforth.
3/3/1983Seventh Non-Aligned Summit started at New Delhi.
5/29/1906Terence Hanbury White, novelist (England Have My Bones), was born in Bombay.
4/17/1990Gas explodes on passenger train in Kumrahar, India killing 80 people.
10/5/1949A. K. Pillai, great social reformer and politician, died.
9/30/1999Hindi writer Prof. Prem Shankar and Tamil scholar Ashokamitran selected for K.K. Birla Foundation Fellowships in comparative Indian literature.
9/16/1913Kasturba Gandhi was arrested.
12/29/1959Durgapur Iron Plant inaugurated.
3/2/1994President's rule in J & K extended.
4/18/1914Cottari Subbanna Nayudu, cricketer (brother of C K, 11 Tests as leggie), was born in Nagpur.