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Historical Event on 9/8/1947
There was little time to celebrate independence in India and Pakistan as large parts of the dominions were paralyzed with fear. Mobs ran wild as Muslims and Hindus battled to death and turned streets into rivers of blood.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
8/11/1961 | Dadra and Nagar Haweli declared as Union Territory States. |
3/6/1947 | Churchill opposes troop withdrawal from India at London. |
1/18/1985 | Spy ring cracked. Top Government officials, businessmen held. |
2/13/1991 | Surjit Singh Barnala resigns as Governor of Tamil Nadu. |
8/8/1905 | Dhyanchand, great Hockey player, was born. |
4/12/1799 | The Church Missionary Society was organized in London under the original name of the Society for Missions in Africa and the East. This Anglican missions agency currently works in fields located in Africa, Ceylon, India, Pakistan, Iran and Palestine. |
5/7/1834 | East India Company annexed Coorg. King Raja Veer Rajendra, who was a cruel ruler, after formally declaring a war had captured Durg State. |
11/16/1989 | 66 out of 71 trapped miners at Raniganj rescued. |
1/1/1900 | Sathya Sai Baba was born |
11/23/1926 | Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian plant physiologist and physicist, passed away. He investigated the properties of very short radio waves, wireless telegraphy and radiation-induced fatigue in inorganic materials. His physiological work involved comparative measurements of the responses of plants exposed to stress. His invention of highly sensitive instruments for the detection of minute responses by living organisms to external stimuli enabled him to anticipate the parallelism between animal and plant tissues noted by later bio-physicists.รก |
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