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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 |
| 10/30/1977 | One hundred thousand Tamil Hindu tea-pickers, who were expatriated from Sri Lanka, are shipped to Madras, South India. |
| 1/11/1993 | Communal violence in Bombay and Ahmedabad spreads; By-elections postponed. |
| 11/24/1899 | Pandit Hiralal Shastri, great social worker, leader and first chief minister of Rajasthan state, was born at Jobner, Jaipur District. |
| 12/15/1976 | Daily newspaper ""Lokmat"" published it's first Jalgaon edit |
| 10/30/1992 | India and China decide to continue peace measures and open more points for border trade. |
| 7/5/1882 | Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927), classical singer and Muslim mystic, was born. He was instrumental in bringing Sufism to the music. |
| 5/22/1993 | Congress (I) suffers reverses in the by-elections. |
| 3/8/1997 | G. K. Moopanar unanimously elected first president of Tamil Maanila Congress. |
| 2/19/1994 | Chambal dacoit Phoolan Devi, the Bandit Queen, was freed on parole after 11 years of incarceration. |
| 9/22/1891 | Gangopadhyay Taraknath, famous novelist in Bengal, passed away. |
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