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Historical Event on 11/8/1988

Salman Rushdie's 'The Satanic Verses' awarded 1988 Whitbread Prize.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/18/1991Kerala declared the first fully literate state in the country.
11/14/1995National Human Rights Commission's conference on 'Human Rights in Prisons' begins in New Delhi.
1/1/1998The Election Commission announces the poll schedule for the 12th Lok Sabha. The polling will be on February 16, 22, 28 and March 7. Simultaneously, elections are to be held for the Meghalaya, Tripura, Nagaland, Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh Assemblies.
10/17/1998Nine women are buried alive as the roof of the 200-year-old Balaji temple in Varanasi's Ramghat area caves in.
2/13/1989Aubrey Menen (76), Renowned writer, passed away in Kerala.
9/11/1985Sri Lanka score their first Test victory by 149 runs against India.
12/19/1994Critical stores of IAF were de-inducted by AN-124 contracted by UN. Bulky stores were brought by ship Mogadishu.
10/19/2000The Government creates an electronic database of all the principal Central Acts from 1834 to 1996 of all India application.
11/2/1972ICMR set up a chain of regional centres of National Nutrition Monitoring and 500 Indians seize Washington Bureaux in different parts of India.
11/27/1998India retains the Asia Cup tennis championship in Delhi beating Uzbekistan 2-1 in the final.