|
|
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 |
| 7/17/1930 | Lord Irwin,British Viceroy, allows Indian moderates to visit Gandhi in prison. |
| 5/20/1677 | Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj won the fort of Jingi. |
| 5/31/1994 | Pandit Samtaprasad, famous Tabla player, passed away. |
| 5/9/1866 | Gopal Krishna Gokhale, freedom fighter and political leader, was born in Kotluk village of Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra. |
| 4/28/1701 | John Norris of Britain met Aurangjeb at Parnela in South India. |
| 5/7/1908 | Sudhabala alias Ermaline was born in Bombay. She was a film actress. Her first film was 'Hothal Padmini' (1925). Some of her films are Kicks of Kismet, Tained Virtue, Red Signal, Wise Fool, Hoor-E-Bagdad. |
| 2/14/1952 | Smt. Sushma Kaushal Swaraj was born in Ambala Cantt. (Haryana). |
| 2/26/1946 | Mrinal Pandey, famous Hindi columnist, was born. |
| 8/2/1959 | Little Theatre was established. |
| 11/11/1793 | English pioneer missionary William Carey, 32, reached Calcutta five months after setting sail for India. Later, Carey founded the Baptist Missionary Society, the first of the British Protestant missions agencies. |
|
![]()
|
|
|
