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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 |
| 8/13/1951 | Acharya Kishoridas Vajpayee passed away. |
| 5/31/1997 | Fourth National Games opened at Bangalore. |
| 1/23/1920 | Air transportation began in India by two Royal Air Force planes between Karachi and Bombay, and Air Mail service started. |
| 7/14/1963 | Swami Shivanand Saraswati, religious leader, passed away. |
| 6/1/1964 | Nava Paisa, established in 1947, was renamed as 'Paisa'. |
| 8/9/1996 | Sachin Tendulkar, 23, chosen India's cricket captain. |
| 5/3/1971 | Dhanjay Ramchandra Gadgil, famous economist, passed away. |
| 10/20/1999 | The Centre accepts the recommendations of the Backward Classes Commission on the inclusion of Jats and other backward classes (OBCs) in Rajasthan except Bharatpur and Dholpur districts. |
| 5/27/1962 | Ravishankar Jayadritha Shastri, cricketer (Indian SLA all-rounder 1981-92), was born in Bombay. |
| 2/1/1942 | No.1 Squadron arrived in Burma with its Lysanders, flying tactical recce missions from Toungoo before transferring to Mingaladon with a flight deployed at Lashio. |
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