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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
11/1/1973Lakshdeep Minikai and Amin Divi were renamed as Lakshadweep, and Masker (Mysore) state renamed as Karnataka.
11/15/1992At least 170 people die in heavy rains and floods in Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
12/26/1921Nurul. S. Hasan, educationist and statesman, was born at Lucknow (U.P).
3/17/1882Vishnushastri Chiplunkar, father of modern Marathi language, passed away.
1/30/1971Indian Airline's Fokker Friendship aircraft in India was hijacked to Lahore.
4/22/1992IAF in response to a recommendation by Secretary General, the Security Council adopted resolution No. 751 (1992) by which it established UNOSOM for handling situation which had deteriorated to an extent where death and destruction forced hundreds of thousands of civilians to flee their homes and causing need for emergency humanitarian assistance.
9/14/1967US announces plan to give India $1.3 million to buy contraceptives.
11/9/1871Padmnath Gohain, litterateur of modern Assamia Barua, was born.
6/23/1992Tin Bigha Day protest in India of corridor opening to Bangladesh.
2/23/1952Employees Provident Fund Bill and Miscellaneous Provision Act passed in the Lok Sabha.