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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
12/23/1954	Judge Bijan Kumar Mukherjea became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 31/01/1956.
12/22/1928	An Alpine Romance', a 709 feet long sound film produced by Universal Picture Corporation, America, was the first sound film censored at Bombay on December 22. The other sound films censored on the same day were 'The Brox Sisters' and 'Bailey and Barnum.'
1/18/1998	Justice M. M. Punchhi is sworn in Chief Justice of India.
7/15/1902	Judge K. Subba Rao, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born.
1/30/1996	Supreme Court directs CBI and other govt. agencies to speed up the Jain hawala probe.
12/8/1999	Furore in the Lok Sabha over RJD President Laloo Prasad Yadav's daughter topping the MBBS exam.
8/1/1997	Lt. Gen. Ved Prakash Malik to be next chief of Army staff. Gen. Shankar Roy Chowdhury retires on September 30.
12/13/1989	Kashmiri militants release the daughter of Indian Home Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed as five of their comrades freed from prison.
8/6/1992	A 30-member JPC constituted to probe the security scam.
9/2/1976	Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar, famous marathi story writer, novelist and Gyanpeeth Awardee, passed away.

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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.

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.