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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
3/6/1775Raghunath Rao signed treaty of Surat with British ending the first Anglo-Maratha War.
8/25/1965Indian troops cross the Kashmir ceasefire line pursuing Pakistani infiltrators.
2/24/1899Maheshchandra Burjorjee Bilimoria, film distributor, was born.
1/28/1992Umanath Vachaspati, Magsesey Award winner, passed away.
1/29/1912Judge A.N. Ray, Chief Justice and Supreme Court of India, was born.
1/1/1976Broadcasting of Commercial Advertisements on TV stations started.
2/25/1992Beant Singh sworn in as CM of Punjab.
9/14/1971Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali litterateur, died.
11/22/1999V. S. Rama Devi and Vishnu Kant Shastri appointed the new Governors of Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh.
5/17/1949India decided with only one dissent vote to remain within the Commonwealth of Nations.