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Historical Event on 2/8/1948

Indian govt. bans Muslim groups 'Khaksars' and 'League National Guard'.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/10/1963Gold Control Measures Plan was started by the Government of India.
2/19/1996Biennial elections to fill 39 Rajya Sabha seats in nine states.
4/2/1997A division bench of Mumbai High Court holds that a married woman of a joint Hindu family can stake a claim to her father's property.
1/14/1993The Supreme Court absolves Railway Minister Jaffer Sharief of corruption charges in the wagon deal with Asea Brown Boveri.
10/28/1981Underground Metro Train Compartments were tested on trial basis at Calcutta.
11/5/1920Indian Red Cross society was founded in India under Bengal Act VIII. St.John Ambulance Association is a wing of this societywhich directed Improvement of Health, Prevention of Diseases and Mitigation of Suffering activities.
10/19/1920Prakashchandra Sethi, former central minister, was born.
10/29/1851British Indian Association was established in Bengal with Radha Kanta Dev as president and Devendranath Tagore as the Secretary.
2/16/1962General Election ( 3rd) of India begins.
11/23/1926Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian plant physiologist and physicist, passed away. He investigated the properties of very short radio waves, wireless telegraphy and radiation-induced fatigue in inorganic materials. His physiological work involved comparative measurements of the responses of plants exposed to stress. His invention of highly sensitive instruments for the detection of minute responses by living organisms to external stimuli enabled him to anticipate the parallelism between animal and plant tissues noted by later bio-physicists.รก