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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 |
| 11/8/1932 | Sankhla Badluram, great industrialist, was born in Delhi. |
| 8/13/1638 | Durgadas Rathore, social reformer, was born at Salwa. |
| 7/23/1856 | Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, scholar, mathematician, philosopher, militant nationalist Indian leader and who helped lay the foundation for India's independence, was born at Ratnagiri in Maharashtra. |
| 4/9/1756 | Ali Bardi Khan of Bengal passed away in Murshidabad. His youngest daughter's son Siraj-ud-Daulah was crowned as King of Bengal when he was merely 20 years old after the death of King Tartar. |
| 10/14/1997 | The two millionth Maruti vehicle rolled out. |
| 3/28/1991 | Chautala asked by Governor to prove his majority on the floor of the house. |
| 1/3/1912 | Shantiprasad Jain, famous industrialist, was born. |
| 1/29/1993 | Test debut of Vinod Kambli, prolific Indian batsman. |
| 5/9/1917 | Fighting breaks out at Kharkwasta in the north-west frontier of India. |
| 6/27/1998 | Homi J. H. Taleyarkhan, Gandhian, Congressman and former Sikkim Governor, dies at 86. |
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