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Historical Event on 6/8/1948
Malabar Princess', Air India's first international flight, takes off from Bombay to London via Cairo and Geneva. This was weekly air service was started between India to United Kingdom.
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| 10/5/1957 | Nehru becomes the first recipient of the key of Hiroshima Peace City. |
| 1/20/1897 | Gandhiji declines to prosecute assailants. |
| 9/26/1904 | R. V. Jagirdar, famous Kannad play writer, was born. |
| 2/5/1981 | Kuda Bux, great Indian mystic (I'd Like to See), passed away at 75. |
| 11/11/1991 | Supreme Court declares the Anti-Defection Law as constitutional but holds that decisions of Presiding Officers under the law could be subjected to judicial review. |
| 12/19/1969 | Nayan Ramlal Mongia, cricketer (Indian Test batsman-wicketkeeper 1994- ), was born in Baroda. |
| 11/29/1959 | Govind Sakharam Serdesai, Jagirdar Raobahadur, passed away. |
| 1/12/1996 | Supreme Court holds that horse racing is not gambling, but a game of skill. |
| 8/9/1999 | India's Manisha Malhotra won the $10,000 ITF women's circuit tournament at Harrisonburg, Virginia for her maiden tour title. |
| 10/29/1935 | Narendra Kumar Chhajerh, great industrialist, was born. |
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