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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
3/18/1998A.B. Vajpayee, the Prime Minister-designate, releases the 'national agenda for governance' in New Delhi. It is silent on the Ram temple issue, scrapping of Article 370 and a uniform civil code.
4/7/2000The Delhi police unearth a multicrore cricket betting and match- fixing racket involving five South African cricketers, including the captain Hansie Cronje. A Delhi-based Indian operator Rajesh Kalra put behind bars.
12/28/1996India all out for 66 at Durban after making 100 in the first innings of the game.
8/9/1998India moves the World Trade Organisation against the European Union reimposing anti-dumping duties on unbleached cotton gray fabric imports.
8/8/1911Following the end of a heavy monsoon, parts of India were hit by a cholera epidemic.
9/15/1967Ramkrishnarao Burgula, Chief Minister of Hyderabad, died.
4/23/1926Madhavrao Sapre, great political leader, passed away.
2/14/1994V. P. Singh elected JD Chief in place of S.R. Bommai who stepped down.
3/11/1993Gen. K.V. Krishna Rao returns to Jammu & Kashmir as Governor.
3/7/1998A. B. Vajpayee is elected leader of the BJP Parliamentary Party.