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Historical Event on 7/31/1997
Election Commission agrees to grant national party status to Bahujan Samaj Party but asks it to give up its election symbol--elephant.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/23/1876 | Saint Gadgebaba, great modern saint of Maharashtra, was born. |
| 11/8/2000 | Queen Ingrid (90), Denmark's Swedish born queen mother and great-grand daughter of Britain's Queen Victoria, died in Copenhagen. |
| 6/9/1986 | First AIDS death reported from a private hospital in Mumbai. |
| 5/2/1769 | Sir John Malcom, former Governor of Mumbai and historian, was born. |
| 10/31/1999 | Shankar Dayal Sharma, former President, is conferred with the Indira Gandhi Award. |
| 3/19/1954 | The first helicopter S-55 arrived at Bombay by sea. |
| 5/26/1993 | The Centre decides to implement the Mandal Commission recommendation to provide 27\% reservation for the socially and educationally backward classes in the Central Services from 15th June. |
| 2/25/1999 | The curtains came down on the fifth National Games. Manipur won the overall championship while swimmers Nisha Millet of Karnataka and Sebastian Xavier of Kerala were adjudged the best sportswoman and sportsman respectively. |
| 1/31/1903 | Smt. Sharda Bhaurao Diwan, educationalist, was born. |
| 3/18/1944 | Azad Hind Fauj entered India (Japanese army) from the border of Burma and invaded north eastern India. |
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