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Sep 18, 2024 · Kashmir - India, Pakistan, Conflict: As long as the territory’s existence was guaranteed by the United Kingdom, the weaknesses in its structure and along its peripheries were not of great consequence, but they became apparent after the British withdrawal from South Asia in 1947.
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1 day ago · Pakistan - Partition, Independence, 1947: Like India, Pakistan achieved independence from British rule as a dominion within the Commonwealth on August 14-15, 1947, the former day celebrated annually as the country’s Independence Day.
Sep 20, 2024 · Indian Independence Act, (July 18, 1947), legislation passed by Parliament of the United Kingdom providing for the establishment of independent India and Pakistan in the territories of South Asia defined as “India” under the 1935 Government of India Act.
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From time to time in 1947, some people in various parts of the United States and some other countries reported seeing strange objects in the sky and claimed that they were spacecraft piloted by space aliens.
5 days ago · India - Muslim Separatism, Partition, 1947: The Muslim quarter of India’s population became increasingly wary of the Congress Party’s promises and restive in the wake of the collapse of the Khilāfat movement, which occurred after Kemal Atatürk announced his modernist Turkish reforms in 1923 and disavowed the very title of caliph the ...
Others were killed in warfare or forced into slavery. When the king and queen of Spain learned of what Columbus had found, they laid claim to much of the new lands. The Spanish established colonies in the West Indies, Mexico, Central America, and South America.
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Wat Misaka. (1923–2019). American basketball guard Wat Misaka played for the New York Knicks during the 1947–48 season. He was the first nonwhite athlete and the first Asian American to play in the Basketball Association of America (BAA), a forerunner of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
