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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 |
| 11/11/1872 | Abdul Karim Khan, famous singer of ""Kirana Gharana"", was b |
| 8/19/1996 | Gujarat's expelled BJP leader Shankersingh Waghela forms a new party called 'Rashtriya Janata Party'. |
| 5/1/1996 | Ban imposed (through a Delhi high court judgment) on the film 'Bandit Queen', based on the life of Phoolan Devi, lifted by Supreme Court. |
| 1/1/1981 | This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Year for the Disabled"". |
| 1/12/1992 | Punjab election set for February 19. |
| 9/29/1992 | Andhra CM Janardhana Reddy resigned. |
| 2/18/1975 | Syed Nazir Ali, cricketer (2 Tests for India, 4 wickets), passed away. |
| 9/24/1856 | Henry, first Viscount Hardinge of Lahore and Governor General of India, passed away. |
| 1/22/1993 | A Patna-Lucknow-Delhi IA flight IC-810 was hijacked by a certain Satish Chandra Pandey shortly after take-off. |
| 5/1/1867 | Sri Kasinadhuni Nageswara Rao Pantulu, great freedom fighter, journalist, nationalist, politician, pioneer in library movement and litterateur, was born at Elakurru village in Gudivada Taluk, District Krishna. |
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