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Historical Event on 3/31/1993
Kidnapped cardiac surgeon Dr. Abdul Ahad Guroo killed in Srinagar.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/9/1993 | Lt. Gen. B.C. Joshi to be the next army chief. |
| 1/21/2000 | The Samata Party National Executive elects Mrs. Jaya Jaitley as its president. |
| 4/24/1993 | Congress dissidents K. N. Singh, Natwar Singh, K. L. Fotedar and Shiela Dikshit suspended. |
| 6/4/1947 | Dharmanand Damodar Kosambi, internationally famous Pandit of Buddhism, passed away. |
| 3/22/1902 | Great Britain and Persia agree to link Europe and India by telegraph. |
| 2/2/1993 | Prices of iron and steel hiked. |
| 4/11/2000 | Ms. Jhumpa Lahiri, an author of Indian origin, wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her debut collection of short stories 'Interpreter of Maladies'. |
| 1/18/1972 | Vinod Ganpat Kambli, cricketer (prolific Indian batsman 1993-), was born in Bombay. |
| 8/15/1947 | The Defence department becomes the Ministry of Defence under a Cabinet Minister. Each service was placed under its own Commander-in-Chief. Under the Constitution, the supreme command of the Armed Forces was vested with the President. |
| 8/14/1998 | Classical vocalist Shamshad Begum, who enthralled radio listeners in the 30s and 40s, died in Mumbai. |
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