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Historical Event on 6/8/1948
Malabar Princess', Air India's first international flight, takes off from Bombay to London via Cairo and Geneva. This was weekly air service was started between India to United Kingdom.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/2/1702 | Balaji Vishwanath Bhat, first Peshwa, passed away. |
| 10/9/1931 | Air Force was established. |
| 10/14/1994 | Setu Madhavrao Pagdi, researcher and historian, died. |
| 6/1/1933 | Fortnightly 'Bal Sanmitra' was published. |
| 1/6/1981 | Indian Ocean bed on their research ship Gavesani of the National Institute succeeded from the depth of 4,300 metres. |
| 2/5/1919 | Sitaram Kesri, veteran Congress leader, was born. |
| 1/1/1989 | The 4th annual SAARC summit concludes in Islamabad. |
| 4/18/1991 | Kerala declared the first fully literate state in the country. |
| 5/3/1969 | Dr. Zakir Hussain(1897-1969), third President of India and the first Muslim President who occupied this office on 13 May, 1967, passed away. He is also remembered as an educationist. |
| 9/4/1952 | India returns Peking's famine-relief aid, saying it had political strings attached. |
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