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Historical Event on 1/31/1986

Shri Vishwanath More, famous music director, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/6/1952Dipal Jayant Tilak, journalist and editor, was born.
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.
7/13/1999Militants attack the residential complex of Border Security Force (BSF) in Madar village near Bandipur and take 12 persons as hostages after killing four.
1/1/1995This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Year of Tolerance"".
9/4/1998Mumbai Metropolitan court acquits Union Minister for Environment and Forests Suresh Prabhu in a case of cheque bouncing.
3/4/1996King of Bhutan arrives in India for a three-day state visit.
12/4/1829Britain abolished ""sati"" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre)
5/23/1924Venkatraman Narayan Swamy, cricketer (one Test v NZ in 1955, DNB, 0-45), was born in Calicut.
5/8/1901British commission claims famine has taken 1.25 million lives since 1899; blames over population.
3/31/1993J.N. Dixit, Foreign Secretary, visits Myanmar and signs agreements on trade, control of drug trafficking and separatist movements along the borders.