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Historical Event on 8/1/1996

T. S. R. Subramaniam was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-03-1998.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/10/1912Prodosh Kusum Das Gupta, great artist and professor, was born at Dacca, Bangladesh.
6/15/1947All-India Congress accepts British plan for partition of India in New Delhi.
1/14/1927M. Aram, famous Hindi writer and educationist, was born in Kulasekharapatnam at Madras.
6/24/1991The first-ever BJP ministry led by Kalyan Singh takes over in UP.
12/21/2000Central Zone and South Zone are declared joint winners after the game ends in a tie in the final of the Deodhar Trophy one day cricket tournament in Lucknow.
9/21/1996Apang (Legislative Party leader of Arunachal Congress) sworn in as Arunachal Pradesh chief minister again.
5/27/1930India's major cities are seething with unrest following the arrest of Mahatma Gandhi and thousands of his followers in the campaign of civil disobedience against British rule. Civil unrest in Bombay, where at least six were killed and sixty injured.
2/14/1901King Edward VII open's his first parliament.
11/20/1930With all the pageantry of the British Empire, a conference of Indian and British leaders had been convened in London to discuss dominion status for India. Surrounded by Maharajahs in turbans, King George V convened the round table conference in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords. Notably absent was Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the nationalist movement. The conference saw a breakdown of the Indian caste system as Brahmins dealt with spokesmen for ""untouchable
5/9/1874First horse-drawn tram car started running in Mumbai.