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Historical Event on 8/30/1979
Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/21/1996	M.S. Sushama Dande (Shiv Sena) elected first woman mayor of New Mumbai along with Savitri Patil (Shiv Sena) as Deputy Mayor.
9/13/1990	An attempt to hijack a Coimbatore-Bangalore-Madras Indian Airlines flight IC 534 to Sri Lanka.
4/3/1991	UP Assembly dissolved to pave way for Assembly polls .
7/3/1863	Little Crow, [Ta-oya-te-duta], santee Sioux Indian chief, passed away.
1/12/1996	Supreme Court holds that horse racing is not gambling, but a game of skill.
1/18/1959	Miss Meera Behn, follower of Gandhi, left India for good.
1/18/1980	Assam agitation turns violent; Army called in.
1/1/1989	India and Pakistan sign three agreements.
4/1/1973	India starts a drive to save tigers from extinction.
2/23/1908	Maharaj Kumar Raghubir Sinh, famous Hindi writer and historian, was born.

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