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Important events of history that took place in India and elsewhere on today’s date.

8 October

🇮🇳 In India

1932 Indian Air force was officially established as an auxiliary air force of the British Empire.

1936 Dhanpat Rai Srivastava, better known by his pen name Premchand, one of the most celebrated writers of the Indian subcontinent, and regarded as one of the foremost Hindi writers of the early twentieth century, died.

1979 Loknayak Jayprakash Harsudayal Narayan, veteran socialist leader, passed away at the age of 76. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna on Dec. 23, 1998 and played a key role in the formation of Janta Party which defeated Indian National Congress for the first time.

2005 A magnitude 7.6 earthquake shook the Kashmir. At least 79,000 people were killed and more than 32,000 buildings collapsed.

🌎 Elsewhere

1921 First live radio broadcast of a football game held at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1943

R L Stine, author of the hugely popular Goosebumps series of books, was born.

1945 Microwave oven patented by US inventor Percy Spencer.

1967 A prominent communist figure in the Cuban Revolution and a South American guerrilla leader, Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.

1970 Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist, philosopher, historian, short story writer, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

2004 Wangari Maathai becomes the first African woman to receive Nobel Peace Prize.

⭐ Significance

Indian Air Force Day is celebrated on October 8 every year. The Indian Air Force was established on 8 October 1932 in British India as an auxiliary air force of the Royal Air Force. The British Empire honoured India's aviation service during World War II with the prefix Royal. After India gained independence from United Kingdom in 1947, the name Royal Indian Air Force was kept and served in the name of Dominion of India. With the government's transition to a Republic in 1950, the prefix Royal was removed.

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