|
|
Historical Event on 11/8/1988
Salman Rushdie's 'The Satanic Verses' awarded 1988 Whitbread Prize.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/16/1986 | Second SAARC summit held at Bangalore. |
| 6/10/1942 | 77 Mountain Brigade was raised at Sagar, Madhya Pradesh. |
| 2/23/1908 | Maharaj Kumar Raghubir Sinh, famous Hindi writer and historian, was born. |
| 12/21/1903 | Bhalchandra Digambar Garware, famous industrailist, was born. |
| 7/16/1990 | O.P.Chautala resigns following directive from JD. |
| 6/17/1917 | Krishan Kumar Chopra, medical practitioner and social worker, was born at Lahore. |
| 10/1/1958 | Metric System of weights was introduced in India. |
| 7/4/1997 | Centre frees from its control nine top public sector undertakings, accounting for over Rs. 10,000 crore profits annually, to become global giants by providing them full financial and operational autonomy. This included newsprint and paper from licensing controls. |
| 9/26/1975 | Notification to pay equal payment to both men and women workers was promulgated. |
| 2/2/1986 | Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India. |
|
![]()
|
|
|
