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Historical Event on 11/8/1988
Salman Rushdie's 'The Satanic Verses' awarded 1988 Whitbread Prize.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/4/1958 | Waverley John Anderson, Scottish viscount and Governor of Bengal, died at the age of 75. |
| 10/27/2000 | The Vajpayee Government 'clears' the names of Surjit Singh Barnala, Prabhat Kumar and Dinanath Tiwari for appointment as the Governors of the new States of Uttaranchal, Jharkhand and Chhatisgarh respectively. |
| 10/12/2000 | A Special Court sentences former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and his Home Minister Buta Singh to undergo three years rigorous imprisonment and pay a fine of Rs. 2 lakhs each in the 'JMM MPs' bribery case'. |
| 12/20/1978 | Riots in many Indian cities in protest against Indira Gandhi's imprisonment. |
| 4/21/1659 | Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj meet Saint Samarth Ramdas Swami. |
| 10/2/1944 | Gandhiji was presented a purse of Rs 110 lakhs (£ 8,25,000) for Kasturba Memorial on his 75th birthday. |
| 12/7/1782 | Hyder Ali, warrior of Mysore, passed away in a camp near Chittur. |
| 1/22/2000 | India retains the golf title in the SAARC championship in Dhaka. |
| 2/17/1980 | Indira Gandhi dissolves nine state assemblies led by opposition. She imposed presidential rule in Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, U.P., Bihar, Orissa, M.P., Rajasthan, Punjab and Gujarat. |
| 7/16/1991 | Railway budget hikes passenger fares by 15-20\% and freight up by 10\%. |
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