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Historical Event on 8/1/1996
T. S. R. Subramaniam was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-03-1998.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/31/1997 | Fourth National Games opened at Bangalore. |
| 5/5/1992 | Prithvi, India's medium range surface-to-surface missile, successfully launched. |
| 5/25/1915 | Mahatma Gandhi established Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad. |
| 5/10/1996 | Congress Chief Ministers of Assam, Haryana & Pondicherry resign. |
| 1/16/1989 | Prem Nazir, famous actor of more than 620 Malayalam films, died at the age of 59 yrs. |
| 12/10/1886 | Rameshwari Nehru, social worker and freedom fighter, was born at Lahore. |
| 1/14/1761 | The third and last battle of Panipat, fought between the Marathas and the Afghan invader Ahmad Shah Abadli, started. The Marathas lost 28,000 soldiers and were virtually routed in North India thus ending the Maratha hegemony. |
| 2/2/1835 | Thomas Babington Macaulay westernises education in India. English is made official government and court language and as medium of instruction. |
| 5/5/1946 | Simla Conference in session from May 5 to May 12; Gandhiji's deliberations prove anfractuous. |
| 6/10/1833 | Azad Muhammad Jussain, Urdu poet and educationalist, was born. |
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