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Historical Event on 7/8/1958

Lord Canning declared that since peace was established, it is better known as end of Indian Mutiny, 1857.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/8/1958Nizam Shah became the Sultan of Dehli.
6/23/1895Kali Charan Ghosh, great Hindi writer, was born at Calcutta.
9/11/2000A Delhi High Court exonerates senior Congress(I) leader and former Union Minister H.K.L. Bhagat in a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case in Delhi (in Mansarovar Park in East Delhi on November 1, 1984).
10/1/1847Annie Besant, famous philosopher and thesophist, was born in London.
2/1/1985Muhammad Azharuddin created a world record at Kanpur by hitting a century in each of his first three test.
12/28/1931The second round of a British-Indian conference on the political future of India collapsed in disagreement over demands by Indian nationalists for complete independence. The British government had seemed willing to grant a limited dominion status. But Mahatma Gandhi, who had come to the conference to present the demands of the All-India Nationalist Congress, refused to accept anything less than complete independence. The breakdown of the talks set off a new round of disorders, Gandhi was greeted by rioting in the streets of Bombay between upper-caste Hindu members of the Congress party and ""untouchable"" caste members who had turned against him.
10/20/1997All India Hindu Conference begins at Hardwar.
7/23/1996India's admission to Asian Regional Forum was endorsed by Foreign Ministers of the group at Jakarta.
7/23/1996Chaitanya Maha Prabhu, vaishnav Sant, passed away. His mortal remains at Puri.(9/7or 29/6).
7/3/1956Pandit Nehru and New Zealand Prime Minister Sir Sidney Holland are given the freedom of the City at London.