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Historical Event on 3/31/1997
Forex reserves touch a record $ 22.36 billions.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/8/1963 | Gursharan Singh Narainsingh, cricketer (Indian batsman played one Test 1989-90), was born in Amritsar. |
| 3/24/1987 | First developmental launch of new generation rocket ASLV 'Stretched Rohini Satellite Series' (SROSS-1). This carried payload for launch vehicle performance monitoring and for gamma ray astronomy. This plunged within two minutes and 40 seconds of its launching. |
| 2/8/1995 | Mulayam Singh wins the crucial vote of strength. |
| 1/18/1998 | Justice M. M. Punchhi is sworn in Chief Justice of India. |
| 4/10/1919 | Miss Mercia Sherwood, an English teacher, was assaulted by a mob in Amritsar. Brig. General. R.E.H. Dyer had given instructions to beat her. |
| 1/8/1906 | Howrah Railway Station, Calcutta, was inaugurated. |
| 1/8/1906 | Vasco-de-Gama was the Last Viceroy of Portuguese, who ruled India. |
| 8/10/1905 | Sundarji Gokuldas Betard, modern Gujrathi poet, was born. |
| 11/9/1942 | Jami, last evergreen poet of Parsi language, died. |
| 9/21/1995 | Rumors that statues of the Hindu god Ganesh were drinking milk spread in New Delhi. |
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