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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
5/25/1979Commercial Unity Day started.
1/20/1993Bindeshwari Dube, former Chief Minister Bihar, passed away.
12/27/1998Nobel laureate Prof. Amartya Sen unveils his plans to set up a charity trust with the award money for development of education and health in India and Bangladesh.
5/7/1861Guru Dev Rabindranath Thakur alias Tagore, novelist, painter, educationist and freedom fighter, was born in Calcutta.
4/17/1990Gas explodes on passenger train in Kumrahar, India killing 80 people.
9/2/1956Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India).
9/9/1949Hindi was accepted as the national language of India.
7/25/1977B. D. Jathi retired from the post of second acting President.
1/14/1990India and Maldives scrap visas.
12/23/1845Rasbhihari Ghosh, famous patriot and law expert, was born.