jul 18, 1947 - The 1947 Indian Independence Act was passed

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"As from the fifteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, two independent Dominions shall be set up in India, to be known respectively as India and Pakistan."

- Pakistan was split into Pakistan and East Pakistan ( now Bangladesh). These dominions separated Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh population, and caused the biggest forced migration which has ever happened that was not the result of war or famine.

- Lord Mountbatten continued as Governor-General and Jawaharlal Nehru was appointed India's first Prime Minister.

https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/evolutionofparliament/legislativescrutiny/parliament-and-empire/collections1/collections2/1947-indian-independence-act/

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