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Historical Event on 1/8/1925

The first All India Art & Craft Exhibition was inaugurated by Sir William Marries, Governor UP at Kaisar Baug, Lucknow.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/2/1996Malabar University (Kerala) comes into being.
3/16/1880Parshuram Rajshekhar Basu, famous Bengali writer, was born.
8/1/1953All Private Airlines were nationalised by establishing of All Airlines India International.
1/4/1999Karnataka's Farah Khan made it three-in-a-row in the National ladies billiards championship in Delhi.
11/6/1962National Defence Council established.
8/1/1947Partition of India into India and Pakistan. Power transferred. Lord Mountbatten becomes Governor General of India and Muhammed Ali Jinnah, Governor General of Pakistan.
2/6/1937Baldev Singh, Chahal campaigner, was born.
2/3/1986Pope John Paul II meets Mother Teresa at Calcutta.
3/1/1939Satish Kumar Sareen was born in Rawalpindi (now in Pakistan). He became the Air Chief Marshal.
8/17/1970The first microwave link, which was set up without foreign assistance, was commissioned between Asansol, Dhanbad and Ranchi.