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Historical Event on 4/8/1950
Nehru and Ali Khan sign the Indo-Pakistani Pact.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/15/1950 | Earthquake measuring 8.6 on Richter Scale hits Assam in north eastern India claiming 11,000 lives. |
| 4/15/1919 | British troops kill 400 Indians, who were demonstrating against the British rule at Amritsar for the forced marshall law on Punjab. |
| 10/9/1987 | Official Languages Rules, 1976 amended. |
| 4/27/1906 | China, as suzerain of Tibet, has agreed to the terms of a treaty proposed by Britain. According to the treaty, foreign powers may not send representatives to Tibet, receive transportation or mining concessions, or occupy, buy or lease any territory in Tibet without British permission. The British want to prevent the Russians from establishing a protectorate over Tibet, which lies on India's northern border. Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, failed in attempts to communicate with Tibet's ruler, the Dalai Lama. A British military expedition fought its way to the capital at Lhasa and concluded the agreement. |
| 1/20/1997 | Indian Express launches its 18th edition from Belgaum. |
| 5/6/2000 | Saurav Ganguly wins the Ceat International Cricketer of the Year award 1999-2000. |
| 6/1/1842 | Satyendranath Tagore, Bengali officer and litterateur, was born. |
| 6/11/1946 | Viceroy interviewed Gandhiji, and mooted proposal of Coalition Government at Centre. |
| 7/10/1997 | Malleswari earns India's first gold medal in Asian weightlifting championship in Beijing. |
| 10/20/1962 | China mounted a massive attacked in N.E.E.F.A. and Ladakh borders. Chinese army pushed Indians back. The real test of IAF airlift capability came when open warfare erupted on the Sino-lndian border, while operating to the tricky helipads in the mountains, including the operation of C-119Gs from airstrips 17,000 ft (5180m) above sea level in the Karakoram Himalayas, and the air-lifting by An-12Bs of two troops of AMX-13 light tanks to Chushul in Ladakh, where the small airstrip was 15,000 ft (4570m) above sea level. |
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