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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 |
| 7/12/1998 | India will not reverse the nuclear programme, declared Mr. Vajpayee. |
| 5/22/1991 | Elections scheduled to be held on 23, 26 deferred to 12, 15 of June. |
| 5/20/1992 | V. Prabhakaran, LTTE supremo, heads the list of 41 accused in the SIT chargesheet. |
| 7/22/1925 | Homi Jehangir Teleyarkhan, social worker, was born. |
| 2/8/1785 | Warren Hastings, British Viceroy, left India. |
| 2/21/1953 | Tillaya Dam and Bokaro Power Station opened by the PM. |
| 10/2/1996 | Mother Teresa made honorary US citizen. |
| 9/19/2000 | Karnam Malleswari adds a glorious chapter to Indian sports history at the Sydney International Convention Centre by becoming the first woman to gain an Olympic medal. |
| 11/1/1967 | Old Punjab, after first partition in 1947, was again seperated into two new states of Punjab and Haryana on linguistic basis, and Chandigarh became a Union Territory. |
| 12/24/2000 | The Government re-instates Dr. R.S.Paroda as the Director-General of the ICAR. |
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