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Historical Event on 8/8/1948
Dr. Yellapragada Subbarow, saintly scientist and nobel prize winner, passed away at Pearl River, New York.

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1/3/1997	Congress President Sitaram Kesri elected leader of Congress Parliamentary Party, and Sharad Pawar appointed leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha.
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10/27/1947	Indian Governments accepts King of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Harisingh's accession merging Jammu and Kashmir in India and sends its troops. Accession of Jammu and Kashmir was then officially announced. No. 12 Sqn was to initiate the remarkable feat of air-lifting the first Sikhs from Palam onto the rough and dusty Srinagar airstrip without planning or reconnaissance as the initial Indian response to the sizeable insurgent forces that were pouring across the border into Jammu and Kashmir.
8/2/1935	The British pass Govt. of India Act, separating Burma, Aden from India.
11/10/1990	Two Burmese youth hijack a Thai Airlines Airbus with 221 passengers on board to Calcutta.
6/1/1916	Lokmanya Tilak roared ''Freedom is by birthright'' at Ahmednagar.
4/24/1972	Jamini Roy, Padmabhushan awardee and famous painter, passed away.
5/29/1967	First blowdown of the 4 ft trisonic tunnel; the tunnel with all auxiliary facilities such as compressor system, electrical sub-station, design office and model fabrication shop is formally set up and commissioned by National Aeronautical Laboratory.
4/1/1869	Income Tax was imposed. On the same day New Indian Divorce Act came into operation.
9/6/1990	Prasar Bharti' bill passed in Parliament.

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Historical Event on 8/8/1948 Dr. Yellapragada Subbarow, saintly scientist and nobel prize winner, passed away at Pearl River, New York.

Historical Event on 8/8/1948
Dr. Yellapragada Subbarow, saintly scientist and nobel prize winner, passed away at Pearl River, New York.