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Historical Event on 11/8/1988

Salman Rushdie's 'The Satanic Verses' awarded 1988 Whitbread Prize.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/30/1826The first Hindi newspaper 'Udant Martand' was published from Calcutta under the Editorship of Pandit Shridhar Shukla.
5/11/1999Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case: The Supreme Court confirmed the death sentence on four of the 26 accused, life imprisionment to three and acquitted the remaining 19 people.
2/1/1985Muhammad Azharuddin created a world record at Kanpur by hitting a century in each of his first three test.
10/4/1974India in apartheid protest refuses to play South Africa in Davis Cup finals.
9/24/1932Preetilata Waddedara, the first armed woman revolutionary, was hanged for ""Chatgaon Ammunitions Plot"".
7/12/1994India expels Pak diplomat; Indian attache tortured in Islamabad.
7/31/2000The Lok Sabha passes by voice vote a bill for creation of Chhattisgarh state.
12/31/1984Rajiv Gandhi was sworn is as the 6th Prime Minister of India. He succeeded his mother Indira Gandhi. He became the Prime Minister of India for a second time and first time after elections.
7/20/1905First Partition of Bengal, which was proposed by Lord Curzon, was accepted by British Government's Minister of India.
9/23/1992Indian-designed pilotless target aircraft 'Lakshya' successfully tested.