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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
8/4/1923Nagpur University started working.
9/7/1947Gandhiji leaves Calcutta for Delhi; commences daily visits to riot-affected areas.
3/7/199922 persons are killed and six injured when an AN-32 transport aircraft of the IAF crashes at Pappankulam near Indira Gandhi International Airport in south-west Delhi.
8/1/1989Kirti Vrajlal Ambani,Reliance executive, held in connection with a plot to kill Bombay Dyeing Chairman Nusli Wadia.
1/30/1971Indian Airline's Fokker Friendship aircraft in India was hijacked to Lahore.
6/15/1949Uloor S. Parmeswara Iyer, famous poet, writer, editor and literature, died. He was 72.
9/1/1962Shivaji University was established in Kolhapur.
3/12/1969Reactor Research Centre established at Kalpakkam. On 18th December 1985, it was renamed as Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research.
5/10/1993Santosh Yadav becomes the first Indian woman to reach the Everest for the second time.
3/18/1996President confers gallantry awards on 65 personnel of the defence forces.