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Historical Event on 7/8/1930

The King opens India House in the Aldwych, appealing for peace in India at London.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/14/16285th Mughal Emperor Shahjahan was crowned.
5/20/1991General Election (10th) of India begins.
5/3/1997Vijay Pradhan, additional senior counsel for Srikrishna Commission probing 1992-93 riots in Mumbai, resigns. He is not allowed to cross-examine Chief Minister Manohar Joshi.
6/14/1947Congress Working Committee met at New Delhi to draft the resolution to be placed before All India Congress Committee on the acceptance of Mountbatten plan for the partition of India.
1/5/1994Jnanpith Award for Oriya Poet Sitakant Mahapatra.
2/23/1908Maharaj Kumar Raghubir Sinh, famous Hindi writer and historian, was born.
10/30/1996Former PM Narasimha Rao appears before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at the Vigyan Bhawan Annexe, New Delhi, as an accused in the St. Kitts forgery case.
3/19/2000Bill Clinton, US President, arrives to a warm welcome in India. This was the first presidential visit of a US head in two decades.
4/20/1993Jharkhand Movement suspends its 36-days old economic blockade.
3/20/1904Charles Freer Andrews came to India as a Christian Missionary and joined the staff of St. Stephen's College in Delhi.