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Historical Event on 6/8/1948
Malabar Princess', Air India's first international flight, takes off from Bombay to London via Cairo and Geneva. This was weekly air service was started between India to United Kingdom.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/18/1946 | U.K. Parliament approves British Cabinet mission report on India but Churchill says that the mission went too far in offering India independence outside of the Commonwealth. |
| 11/13/1917 | Vasantrao Banduji Patil, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, was born. |
| 10/30/1883 | Swami Dayanand Saraswati, founder of Arya Samaj, died in Ajmer. |
| 3/23/1942 | Japanese forces occupy Rangoon, Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean. |
| 1/1/1924 | Krishna Mohan Jha, famous educationist, was born at Pokharia near Katihar (Purnea). |
| 3/26/1969 | Vikram Rathour, cricketer (Indian Test opening batsman 1996-), was born in Jalandhar. |
| 9/6/1674 | Faced with a critical situation, De la Haye had to capitulate and surrender St Thome to the Dutch who allowed the Sultan of Golconda to re-occupy it. |
| 2/1/1994 | PM Rao attends the World Economic Forum meeting at Davos, Switzerland. |
| 5/6/1910 | Edward VII, King of Great Britain and Emperor of India, died suddenly of pneumonia at Buckingham Palace tonight. He ruled Britain for nine years. Power passed immediately to his son George, the Prince of Wales, who will rule as King George V. The 68-year-old monarch's sudden death threw his country into a state of shock. Edward had apparently caught a cold during a visit the past weekend to the wet grounds of his estate at Sandringham. |
| 3/23/1968 | Atul Satish Wassan, cricketer (Indian pace bowler 1989-90), was born in Delhi. |
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