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Historical Event on 7/31/1974

B. S. Chawla was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 15-08-1974.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/1/1927Dr. Namwar Singh was born.
10/4/1997Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2D), fourth satellite in INSAT-2 series, became inoperable due to power bus anomaly. This satellite had capabilities such as mobile satellite service, business communication and television outreach beyond Indian boundaries.
4/8/1923Plague in India killed 1,000 in past week.
10/21/1950China invades Tibet.
12/16/1999Bill on Cyber law is introduced in the Lok Sabha.
4/11/2000Ms. Jhumpa Lahiri, an author of Indian origin, wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her debut collection of short stories 'Interpreter of Maladies'.
2/3/1986Pope John Paul II meets Mother Teresa at Calcutta.
8/7/1905The first political documentary ootage was the Great Bengal Partition Movement: Meeting and Procession shot by Jyotish Sarkar and Jamshedji F. Madan in Calcutta.
5/26/1999IRS-P4(OCEANSAT) with an Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM) and a Multi-frequency Scanning Microwave Radiometer (MSMR) and two small satellites (KITSAT of Korea and TUBSAT of Germany) launched by PSLV-C2.
10/12/1997Queen Elizebeth II, accompanied by husband Duke of Edinburgh Philips, arrived in New Delhi on a week-long state visit to mark India's 50th anniversary of Independence.