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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
11/17/1935Deodhar Gopal Krishna, great social worker and architect of ""Seva Sadan"" (Pune), passed away.
3/3/1983Seventh Non-Aligned Summit started at New Delhi.
5/12/1998Yeltsin feels let down by the Indian nuclear tests but says that Indo-Russian ties will not be hit.
1/9/1664Shivaji started Surat campaign and left the city after plundering the place.
2/20/1847Turf Club of Royal Calcutta was established.
1/20/1871Sir Ratanji Jamshedji Tata, famous Indian industrialist, was born.
5/22/1993Congress (I) suffers reverses in the by-elections.
5/18/1955Hindu Marriage Act is amended.
7/5/1990G. C. Saxena, J&K Governor, promulgates J&K Disturbed Areas Act, 1990, declaring several districts as disturbed area.
4/1/1995The Airports Authority of India (AAI) formed by the merger of IAAI and NAA. AAI manages five international airports, 87 domestic airports and 28 civil enclaves.