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Historical Event on 7/31/1988

Air Chief Marshal D A La Fontaine PVSM, AVSM, VM. retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/24/1929First non-stop flight from England to India takes-off.
11/5/2000The Interpol issues a ""look-out'' notice for the five persons and two of their accomplices, who hijacked an Indian Airlines plane in December 1999
8/1/1997Nitin Mongia wins Laser standard in sailing championship in Hyderabad.
8/17/1911Y.R. Lokurkar, senior journalist, was born.
7/18/1993India beats France 3-2 in a sensational Davis Cup tie to enter into the semi-final.
1/31/1997Government raises quantity of gold that can be brought into the country by non-residents to 10 kg. (from the existing 5).
10/9/2000The Reserve Bank of India issued bank notes in the denomination of Rs.1000 in the Mahatma Gandhi series bearing the leader's portrait in the watermark and signature of Dr. Bimal Jalan, Governor of the RBI. The length of the note is 177 mm and the width is 73 mm. The notes are printed in a combination of offset and intaglio processes. This is the first note with intaglio printing on it.
9/6/1905Satyacharan Chaterjee, great Indian Geologist, was born.
9/30/1996Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne, Sri Lankan social scientist, received the Gandhi Peace Prize 1996.
4/1/1993National Aeronautical Laboratory becomes National Aerospace Laboratories.