ON 31 JULY IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on July 31, 2019
1658: Aurangzeb, former governor of Gujarat and Balk (Afghanistan) becomes emperor of India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurangzeb
http://www.preservearticles.com/201012302033/aurangzeb-biography.html
1805: Death of Dheeran Chinnamalai, Indian Freedom Fighter, born on April 17, 1756
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dheeran_Chinnamalai
http://www.winentrance.com/general_knowledge/dheeran-chinnamalai.html
1880: Birth of Munshi Premchand, Indian Author who died on October 8, 1936
http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/munshi-premchand-101.php
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/31-july-1880-popular-hindi-writer-premchand-is-born
1916: Birth of Sibte Hassan, Pakistani communist activist who died on April 1986
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibte_Hassan
1940: Udham Singh, fiery revolutionary, freedom fighter and social reformer, was hanged by the British Government in the Pantone Villa Jail, London, born on December 29, 1899.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udham_Singh
https://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv2n2/singh.htm
1941: Birth of Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician who died on August 15, 2004
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarsinh_Chaudhary
1954: Birth of Manivannan, Indian actor and director who died on June 15 2013
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manivannan
1980: Death of Mohammed Rafi, Indian singer born on December 24, 1924
http://www.mohdrafi.com/
2009: The emergency rule imposed in Pakistan two years ago by Pervez Musharraf, the country’s former president, was unconstitutional, the country’s supreme court has ruled
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/07/2009731153545939928.html
2010: Eight hundred people are now known to have been killed in the worst floods in Pakistan’s history as rescue workers attempted to reach thousands of people stranded by torrential monsoon rains. More than a million people had been affected by the floods
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/07/20107314936812905.html
2012: The world’s biggest ever blackout brought half of India to a standstill, as a catastrophic power outage left 670 million people without electricity
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/9441940/Worlds-biggest-ever-blackout-as-India-is-brought-to-a-standstill.html