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Historical Event on 3/31/1977

N. K. Mukarji was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-03-1980.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/19/1983Prof. Subramanyam Chandrasekhar shares the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with fellow American Prof. William Fowler.
12/31/1966Bishen Singh Bedi made his Test Cricket debut vs West Indies at Calcutta.
10/26/1952Pakistan's first Test cricket win vs India. Fazal Mahmood took 12 wkts .
1/6/1987Jaidev, famous music director, passed away.
11/18/1937Rajinder Pal, cricketer (pace bowler in one Test India v Eng, 0-22), was born in Delhi.
1/31/1994Milind Desai, 12, the youngest editor in Gujarati journalism, died of leukemia.
9/24/1998In his address to the UN General Assembly, PM Vajpayee said that India wouldl not come in the way of implementing CTBT and may sign it conditionally by September 1999.
12/23/2000The Centre gives a green signal to West Bengal Government's proposal to rename Calcutta as ''Kolkata''.
12/31/1706Francois Martin, founder of Pondicherry and was its first Governor General, died. He founded Pondicherry, the future capital of French India in 1674.
4/24/1888Bishnu Ram Medhi, chief minister of Assam and Governor of Madras, was born at Hajo.