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Historical Event on 7/1/1947
British Parliament passes the India Independence Act and fixes August 15 for the transfer of power.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/5/1870 | Chittaranjan Das, freedom fighter, famous lawyer and orator, was born at Calcutta. |
| 6/11/1930 | A cyclonic storm blew a train off the rails near Himmatnagar, Gujarat, killing at least one person and injuring many more. |
| 12/25/1954 | Manvendranath Roy, great patriot, died. |
| 6/27/1967 | First Indian made AVRO aircraft passenger Plane HS748 handed over to Indian Airlines. |
| 3/20/1993 | Memon brothers, the prime suspects in the Bombay bomb blasts, escape from Dubai. |
| 6/9/1967 | Narayan Shripad Rajhans, alias Bal Gandharva, went into a coma in Bombay and never regained his consciousness. |
| 6/11/2000 | Rajesh Pilot, Congress(I) leader and former Union Minister, died in a road accident in his home constituency, Dausa. |
| 7/12/1920 | Siddharthacharry V, educationist and diplomat, was born at Mysore. |
| 12/11/1967 | 6.5 earthquake in West India, 170 killed. |
| 7/15/1997 | Mahesh Chander Mehta, Environmental activist, wins Ramon Magsaysay Award. |
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