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Historical Event on 3/31/1913

Foundation stone of 'Gateway of India' was laid by Sir George Sydneham Clerk.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/4/1997Supreme Court declares that the Rashtrapati Bhavan press communique of 23/1/1992 on a proposal to confer the Bharat Ratna 'posthumously' on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose ""should be treated as cancelled"", as the proposal was dropped by the Government in deference to the sentiments expressed by the public and his family members.
11/25/1999Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam is appointed Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India.
7/5/1993Air Marshal Swarup Krishna Kaul appointed Chief of Air Staff.
3/22/1963World Bank loans India $ 67 mil. to improve its railways.
4/10/1999Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (87), patriarch of Malayalam fiction, died at his ancestral village at Sankaramangalam in Thakazhi village.
8/4/1914Gandhiji reaches London and raised Indian Volunteer Corps.
3/10/1954The history of 104 HU, the most prestigious and the oldest Helicopter Unit of the IAF, is studded with more than four decades of glorious past and yeomen service rendered to the country. One-O-Four was raised as Helicopter Flight at Palam on 10th March 1954.
6/15/1991About 50% of the 180.3 million electorate cast their votes in the final phase of Lok Sabha elections.
2/4/1628Shahjahan was enthroned and proclaimed emperor at Agra.
7/1/1990General Sunith Francis Rodrigues takes over as Chief of the Army Staff.