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Historical Event on 8/15/1947
India gains independence from the British rule and Pakistan emerges as a separate Islamic nation. Around 600,000 die in clashes during the subsequent population exchange of 14 million people between the two new countries.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/14/1914 | Takli Shivshankar, famous Malyalam novelist and short story writer, was born. |
| 12/6/1946 | Anglo-Indian talks end in failure after three days at London. |
| 1/20/1993 | Bindeshwari Dube, former Chief Minister Bihar, passed away. |
| 4/21/1998 | The services of 12 non-railway chairmen of Railway Recruitment Boards are terminated. |
| 4/1/1998 | Prabhat Kumar, a 1963 batch IAS officer, was appointed as the new Cabinet Secretary of India. He succeeded T.S.R. Subramaniam and held the office till 31-10-2000. |
| 4/30/1996 | CBI concludes after 11 1/2 years of investigation that no espionage has taken place in what was dubbed the `ISRO spy scandal case'. |
| 6/29/1857 | Battle at Chinhat (Indies rebel under Barkat Ahmed beat British). |
| 12/31/1943 | Ben Kingsley Scarborough, English actor (Gandhi, Betrayal, Maurice), was born. |
| 7/7/1905 | Six Language penel were started on the Rs. five denomination again. The printing colour of note changed to Red with Special text mentioned, 'At any office of issue not situated in Burma'. |
| 11/27/1920 | Kanhaiyalal Bhagwandas Harjal, educationist, was born at Mohpa, Maharashtra. |
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