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Historical Event on 8/1/1947

Partition of India into India and Pakistan. Power transferred. Lord Mountbatten becomes Governor General of India and Muhammed Ali Jinnah, Governor General of Pakistan.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/28/1951Recognition to Libya by India accorded.
3/25/1987Marxist-led alliance gets majority in Kerala and West Bengal elections .
2/6/1966Madurai Kamraj University established.
5/18/1974First underground Atomic device explosion for India was carried out successfully near Pokhran in Rajasthan (Thar Desert) at 8:05 a.m. This event made India as the 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb.
6/13/1879Ganesh Damodar (Babarao) Savarkar, revolutionary, was born.
7/26/1975Anti-government demonstrations held in Gujarat, defying the emergency law prohibiting such demonstrations.
8/4/1906Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar, the architect of modern Himachal Pradesh and an energetic Chief Minister, was born at Chanhalag village in Sirmaur.
5/9/1995Abha Gandhi, servant to Mahatma Gandhi, passed away. He was 68 years.
8/1/1986Amnesty scheme for evaders of taxes announced.
4/23/1994Ibrahim Sulaiman Sait, former Indian Union Muslim League president, floats a new party - the Indian National League.