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8 July

🇮🇳 In India

1918 Montagu-Chelmsford Report, which formed the basis of the Government of India Act 1919, was published.

1954 Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru started the hydroelectric project on Bhakra-Nangal in Punjab, the world's largest canal.

2006 Raja Rao, Indian-American writer of English-language novels and short stories, whose works are deeply rooted in metaphysics, died in Texas, United States.

🌎 Elsewhere

0632 Prophet Mohammed, the founder of Islam and unifier of Arabia, died in Medina, Saudi Arabia.

1497

Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer, departed on a trip to India. He sailed from Lisbon enroute to Calicut, India. His journey took him around South Africa and opened the Far East to European trade and colonial expansion.

1822 29-year old poet Percy Bysshe Shelley drowns while sailing in Italy.

1889 Journalist Charles Henry Dow published the first issue of The Wall Street Journal.

1999 J K Rowling's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the 3rd book of the series, was published.

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