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Historical Event on 10/31/1997
Balmiki Prasad Singh takes over as Union Home Secretary. He succeeds K. Padmanabhaiah.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/19/1917 | Ashoknath Banerjee, Governor of Karnataka, was born. |
| 6/22/1994 | L. V. Prasad, father of South Indian film industry, died. |
| 2/14/1970 | Supreme Court holds nationalization of banks illegal. Presidential ordinance revalidates nationalization. |
| 6/12/1990 | CPI(M) accuses Communist Party of Soviet Union of departing from the basic ideology of Marxism-Leninism in the name of correcting past distortions. |
| 9/13/1996 | Lok Pal Bill introduced in Lok Sabha. |
| 4/24/1918 | Durgaprasad Dhar, former Vice President of Planning Commission, was born. |
| 1/1/1969 | B. Sivaraman was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 30-11-1970. |
| 5/18/1966 | Panchanan Maheshwari, great Indian scientist of botany, passed away. He studied the morphology, anatomy and embryology of some angiosperms, the class of plants which produce flowers. He discovered species of plants like ""Panchanania Jaipuriensis and Isoeted Panchananil."" He wrote two authoritative books, 'An Introduction to the Embryology of Angiosperms' & 'Recent Advances in Embryology on Angiosperms'. In 1951, he founded the International Society of plant Morphologists. |
| 6/22/1975 | National Emergency was declared and censorship introduced. |
| 7/26/1922 | Girilal Jain, famous journalist and editor, was born. |
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