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Historical Event on 3/8/1941

Sir Jorge Abraham Gearson, philologist and archealogist, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/20/1974Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed elected President of India with B. D. Jatti as Vice President.
12/13/1989Kashmiri militants release the daughter of Indian Home Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed as five of their comrades freed from prison.
8/29/1947A conference of the Governor General and the two PMs of India and Pakistan with their military commanders to stop communal riots in the Punjab.
8/6/1933Kripal Singh Govindsingh, Amritsar, India, 100* on debut v NZ 1959, was born at Madras.
1/29/1975West Indies won the fifth test against India after winning the exciting cricket series 3-2.
6/16/1950 Mithun Chakravorty, famous Hindi film actor, was born.
2/21/1993Naxals free Andhra Pradesh Congress (I) MLA P.Balaraju and a govt. official after 22 days in captivity.
12/28/1931The second round of a British-Indian conference on the political future of India collapsed in disagreement over demands by Indian nationalists for complete independence. The British government had seemed willing to grant a limited dominion status. But Mahatma Gandhi, who had come to the conference to present the demands of the All-India Nationalist Congress, refused to accept anything less than complete independence. The breakdown of the talks set off a new round of disorders, Gandhi was greeted by rioting in the streets of Bombay between upper-caste Hindu members of the Congress party and ""untouchable"" caste members who had turned against him.
10/29/1962China attacked India.
9/7/1965U.S. suspends military aid to India and Pakistan.