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Historical Event on 8/8/1948

Dr. Yellapragada Subbarow, saintly scientist and nobel prize winner, passed away at Pearl River, New York.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/5/1997Mother Teresa, founder of Missionaries of Charity who was awarded with Nobel Prize (1979) and Bharat Ratna, died at the age of 87 due to heart attack late in the evening around 9:30 pm in Calcutta.
12/14/1901Gandhiji reaches Rajkot via Porbunder.
8/13/1993All the TDP MLAs suspended from Andhra Pradesh Assembly.
11/5/1977Indira Gandhi arrested and released unconditionally. The External Affairs Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee addresses the United Nations General Assembly in Hindi.
11/21/1970Sir Chandrasekhar Venkata Raman, great Indian physicist, passed away early morning at Bangalore, Karnataka. His work was influential in the growth of science in India. He was the recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics for the 1928 discovery now called Raman scattering which is a change in frequency observed when light is scattered in a transparent material. When monochromatic or laser light is passed through a transparent gas, liquid, or solid and is observed with the spectroscope, the normal spectral line is associated with it lines of longer and of shorter wavelength and this is called the Raman spectrum. Thus the Raman effect is applied in spectrographic chemical analysis and in the determination of molecular structure.
7/3/1897Hansa Mehta, educationist and social reformer, was born at Surat (Gujarat).
11/7/1998The Kalidas Samman awards, instituted by the Madhya Pradesh Government, are presented to Tapas Sen, Akbar Padamsee, Shriram Lagoo, Pandit Jasraj and Kalyani Kutti Amma.
6/5/1980Manipur University was established.
1/27/1927Michael Craig, actor (Escape 2000, Vault of Horror), was born in Pune.
10/10/1946Noakhali Massacre.