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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.

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6/26/1995	Madhya Pradesh declared ""Tiger State"" as it homes one sixth of the world's tiger population.
3/21/1996	Supreme Court holds that attempt to suicide and its abetment would continue to be punishable offences.
3/30/1993	Air Time Committee Chief P.S. Deodhar and its members resign in protest against the implementation of the metro channel of Doordarshan.
4/24/1959	Nehru meets the exiled Dalai Lama in Mussoorie.
6/9/1923	K. Alagirisami, famous journalist, playwright and story writer, was born.
7/9/1996	A Delhi court summoned former Prime Minister Narsimha Rao to face trial as an accused in the Lakhubhai Pathak cheating case in which godman Chandraswami was already facing trial.
6/15/1659	Aurangzeb declared as the Emperor at Delhi.
7/19/1974	Udham Singh's, revolutionary, ashes brought to Delhi from London.
8/9/1992	Golden jubilee celebrations of the Quit India Movement begin in Bombay.

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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.