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Important events of history that took place in India and elsewhere on today’s date.
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, 16th-century painting; in the Maritime Museum, Lisbon - 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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