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Historical Event on 8/15/1947

Lord Louis Mountbatten took charge as the first British Governor General of Indian Union and occupied this office till June 20, 1948.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/26/1957Janta Insurance Scheme was inaugurated in Bombay.
1/1/1948India raised voice against Pakistani infilatration in the country. A complaint was lodged in the Security Council of United Nation on Kashmir invasion.
3/22/1902Great Britain and Persia agree to link Europe and India by telegraph.
7/31/1658Aurangzeb appoints himself Mongol emperor.
10/26/1999Sonia Gandhi, Congress(I) president, visits cyclone-hit areas.
1/19/1995Prof. Armaity Desai, eminent Sociologist, appointed the new UGC Chairperson.
11/14/1995Supreme Court gave patients the right to drag careless doctors to Court.
10/5/1991Ramnath Goenka, journalist and founder chairman of the Indian Express Newspapers Group, died at the age of 87 years.
7/5/1995Tarapur nuclear station controls the leakage and soil contamination within the natural background radiation levels.
1/22/1992Government raises Suzuki share in Maruti to 50 per cent making it the first public sector company to go private.