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Historical Event on 9/8/1897

Lokmanya Tilak charged in anti-national activity case.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/21/1988Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1C) launched. This is operational multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite. It served for only one and a half years. It was launched by European Ariane launch vehicle Ariane-3.
7/18/1946U.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.
2/1/1855East India Railways were held for formal inauguration; Howrah station was opened.
6/18/1956New Hindu Succession Act was passed.
12/1/1894Bhim Sen Sachar, freedom fighter, leader and Chief Minister of Punjab, was born.
11/15/1999Notorious criminal Surendra alias Dolatpuri is shot dead in a police encounter at Khatavli, Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh.
8/1/1952Nationalised Airways at Safdarjung, New Delhi inaugurated by Nehru.
10/14/1910Further unrest took place in Lhasa, Tibet, following the arrest of Dalai Lama's agent by the Chinese on the Chinese frontier with India.
6/30/1817Dadabhai Navroji, veteran leader and industrialist, died.
6/20/1995B.R. Verma was made pro-tem Speaker by Governor by invoking Article 180 (1).