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Historical Event on 1/31/1997
INS Vikrant, Indian Navy's first aircraft carrier, de-commissioned.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/15/1993 | Supreme Court rules that the CEC is supreme |
| 8/30/1990 | Parliament unanimously passes the Prasar Bharati Bill. |
| 12/11/1991 | R. G. Sardesai, veteran journalist, died. |
| 7/20/1991 | Shanmugam, suspect in Rajiv murder case, found dead. |
| 5/5/1994 | Revolt against Nar Bahadur Bhandari government in Sikkim, Sanchaman Limboo elected new leader. |
| 8/18/1990 | Pandit Narayan Chaturvedi, senior Hindi litterateur, died. |
| 8/22/1993 | Gundu Rao, former Chief Minister of Karnataka, died. He was 56. |
| 10/3/2000 | India and Russia sign a declaration on strategic partnership. |
| 8/23/1995 | First ever cellular phone service begins in Calcutta. |
| 10/14/1998 | Prof. Amartya Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. He became the sixth Indian, by birth or citizenship, to win a Nobel. |
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