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Historical Event on 9/30/1997
Gen. V. P. Malik takes over from Gen. Shankar Roychowdhury as Chief of Army Staff.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/13/1911 | Sister Nivedita, follower of Vivekanand, died. |
| 5/12/1923 | Meera Mukherjee, great artist, was born. |
| 10/1/1932 | Indian Milatary Academy became functional with Brigadier LP Collins, DSO, OBE as the Commandant. The first course of 40 GCs had on its rolls Sam Manekshaw, Smith Dun and Mohd Musa, later to be Chiefs of the armies of their respective countries, i.e. India, Burma (now Myanmar) and Pakistan. This training was for a period of two and a half years. |
| 10/30/1887 | Sukumar Roy, famous Bengali children's litterateur, was born. |
| 11/25/1987 | India all out for 75 vs West Indies at Delhi. Patterson took 5-24. |
| 10/15/2000 | Sachin Tendulkar becomes the highest run-getter in one-day internationals (9379 runs) during his innings of 69 in the final of the ICC cricket tournament against New Zealand |
| 7/25/1992 | R. Venkataraman retired from the post of 8th President. |
| 4/1/1986 | Delhi beat Haryana by innings and 141 runs to win the Ranji Trophy. |
| 5/9/1996 | Kerala CM A.K. Antony resigns. |
| 9/20/1996 | Arunachal Chief Minister Apang resigns and forms new party Arunachal Congress. |
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