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Historical Event on 8/15/1947
At the stroke of midnight, India is free after 163 years of British Raj. At the same time Muslims win a degree of freedom from Hindus. They have their own separate dominion Pakistan in the British Commonwealth Sect.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/7/1989 | Hemananda Biswal sworn in as Orissa Chief Minister. |
| 9/3/1992 | Delhi High Court verdict on Bofors challenged in the Supreme Court. |
| 2/14/1985 | Dr. Nagendra Singh elected World Court Chief. |
| 4/24/1993 | IA's Delhi-Srinagar Boeing with 141 persons, hijacked by a Kashmiri militant lands, in Amritsar. |
| 8/16/1991 | C. Achuta Menon, former CM of Kerala, passed away. |
| 3/22/1902 | Great Britain and Persia agree to link Europe and India by telegraph. |
| 12/27/1898 | Shamrao Desmukh, former Central Minister and Agriculture expert , was born. |
| 2/18/1823 | Gopal Hari Deshmukh, lokhitwadi, was born. |
| 5/9/1997 | Hareesh Khandelwal, an accused in the fodder scam, commits suicide by jumping before a train at Dhanbad in Bihar. |
| 1/30/1988 | Sheshrao Wankhede, barrister, passed away. |
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