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Historical Event on 08/10/1581
Akbar, great Mughal Emperor, won Kabul.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/18/1998 | Justice M. M. Punchhi is sworn in Chief Justice of India. |
| 5/28/1965 | Fire and explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad, India kills 400. |
| 5/30/1977 | Express Train fell into Beki river in Assam killing 44 persons. |
| 11/18/1925 | Madhukar Gopal Pathak, noted author and film director, was born. |
| 4/26/1841 | Bombay Gazette begins publishing on silk. |
| 4/19/1997 | I.K. Gujral, External Affairs Minister, chosen leader of United Front in place of Deve Gowda. |
| 8/15/1947 | The Indian independence divided not only the country but its armed forces as well. These units came down and their equipment was transferred to the newly created Royal Pakistan Air Force. Thus, the principal components of the Royal Indian Air Force, during the partition, were nos. 3, 4, 7, 8 and 10 Squadrons with Tempest US, No. 2 Squadron with Spitfires and No. 12 Squadron with C-47s and No. 1 Air Observation Flight (AOF). The establishment of this AOF with AOP Auster 4s, 5s and 6s, coincided with independence. No. 6 Squadron, which had been in process of converting from Spitfires to C-47s at Drigh Road, had been stood down and its transports transferred to Pakistan. |
| 11/1/1967 | Old Punjab, after first partition in 1947, was again seperated into two new states of Punjab and Haryana on linguistic basis, and Chandigarh became a Union Territory. |
| 3/9/1993 | 14 bus passengers burnt to death in Andhra . |
| 5/29/1933 | Kishorilal Goswami, famous Hindi novelist, passed away. |
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