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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 |
| 1/15/1999 | Mi. Pa. Somasundaram (79), writer, poet, litterateur and associate of Rajaji, died in Chennai. |
| 11/16/1908 | Bommi Narsingh Reddy, famous film story writer, was born. |
| 1/27/1989 | M. Karunanidhi sworn in as DMK CM in Tamil Nadu. |
| 2/5/1992 | D.D. Lapang takes over as the new CM of Meghalaya. |
| 9/30/2000 | India's Priyanka Chopra (18) wins the Miss World beauty pageant. |
| 8/19/1999 | India's role in ASEAN, ARF is lauded at a colloquium in Singapore. |
| 9/6/1996 | CBI arrests four Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leaders in bribery case. |
| 8/11/1993 | Brahmaprakash Chaudhary, first Chief Minister of Delhi and former central minister, died. |
| 7/7/1948 | Damodar Valley Corporation, first public corporation, was established. |
| 6/19/1999 | The ''people's bus'' from Calcutta rolls into Dhaka and is formally received by the Prime Minister and his Bangladesh counterpart. |
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