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Historical Event on 9/8/1947
There was little time to celebrate independence in India and Pakistan as large parts of the dominions were paralyzed with fear. Mobs ran wild as Muslims and Hindus battled to death and turned streets into rivers of blood.
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| 3/10/1999 | Lok Sabha approves the Patents (Amendment) Bill 1999, by a voice vote. |
| 4/18/1904 | Ramnath Goenka, president and founder of Indian Express Group, was born. |
| 6/9/1998 | Gujarat was hit by a cyclone killing 1,000 people in six days. |
| 8/10/1993 | Narayan Keshav Upasni, famous educationist, passed away. |
| 4/6/1934 | Nilkanth Yashwant Khadilkar, editor of Marathi daily newspaper, was born. |
| 2/6/1995 | India and France decide to set up permanent Secretariat in Paris during the Indo-French Joint Business Council in Delhi. |
| 9/18/1992 | Andhra government's order of setting up 12 private medical colleges quashed by a full bench of the High Court. |
| 7/16/1956 | K. L. Pawar, who guided students for the written examinations, was born. |
| 1/31/1963 | Peacock declared as National Bird of India. |
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