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Historical Event on 3/1/1997

Gopi Chand and P.V.V. Lakshmi retain individual titles and India takes team titles in SAARC badminton in Colombo.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/29/1984Indian Airlines Boeing 737 with 68 passengers and a crew of 6 hijacked in Lahore.
2/19/1995National Research Centre for Oil Palm(NRCOP), the only institute exclusively devoted to Oil Palm research in India, was established.
10/24/1994Justice Ahmad Mushabber Ahmadi sworn in as Chief Justice of India.
7/1/1958Vishnu Sahay was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 10-11-1960.
11/7/1995Lukose Leelamma at Pune sets record for 10,000m (Women) in 34.33.50.
9/19/1911Boyi Bhimanna, great Hindi writer, poet and prolific author, was born at Mamidikuduru in AP.
8/14/1947Sir Harilal Jekisundas Kania was appinted as the Chief Justice of India. He was in this office till 05/11/1951.
1/18/1997India's first electric car 'Reva' launched in Bangalore.
6/2/1984Army takes control in Punjab as 22 people are killed in Sikh struggle for autonomy. The state is declared a restricted area under the Foreigners' Act.
3/3/1997Senior Officials Meeting of Indian Ocean Rim (IOR) countries begins in Mauritius.