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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
9/12/1961Nalin Vilochan Sharma, great Hindi critic, died.
11/6/1913Mohandas K. Gandhi, leader of Indian Passive Resistance Movement, was arrested for leading Indian miners march in South Africa by British troops.
1/27/1901Tarkatirtha Laxmanshastri Joshi, the great thinker, master of Sanskrit and editor of Marathi Vishwakosh, was born.
3/29/1999A massive earthquake in the Garhwal region of Uttar Pradesh in the inner Himalayas claims 85 lives and more than 130 injured.
3/23/199710 Dalits killed in Kab village of Bihar by Ranbir Sena, a pro-landlord extremist organisation.
10/24/1994Justice Ahmad Mushabber Ahmadi sworn in as Chief Justice of India.
5/9/1917Fighting breaks out at Kharkwasta in the north-west frontier of India.
1/6/1987An International Conference to commemorate the 75 anniversary of the African National Congress opens in New Delhi.
6/11/200027 army personnel die after the bus carrying them plunges into a gorge at a spot 80 km from Jammu.
1/12/1993Police firing at 15 places in Bombay; four foreign militants arrested.