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Historical Event on 7/16/1969

Air Chief Marshal Pratap Chandra Lal, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, DFC. became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 15/01/1973.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/25/1888Lord Louis Mountbatten, British politician, was born.
3/31/1663Mir Jumla, Mughal Commander, passed away in Bihar.
1/22/1877Tarun Ram Phookun, ''Deshabhakta'', great lawyer, orator, eminent writer and President of the Assam Chhatra Sammelan in 1928, was born in Gauhati, district Kamrup, Assam.
3/3/1983Seventh Non-Aligned Summit started at New Delhi.
7/10/1964Bangalore University was established in Karnataka.
5/23/1984Bachendri Pal, an employee of Tata Iron and Steel Co. Limited at Jamshedpur, conquers the summit of Mount Everest to become the first Indian woman and the fifth women in the world to achieve this feat.
10/31/1999Efforts to restore rail and telecom links on a war footing.
7/12/1920Siddharthacharry V, educationist and diplomat, was born at Mysore.
7/10/1978'Mahatma Phule Backward Class Development Corporation' (Mahatma Phule Magaswarg Vikas Mahamandal) was established.
6/23/1935Ram Kolarkar, famous marathi author and editor, was born.