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Today in Asian History

August 9

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1942 Mohandas Gandhi, J. Nehru, and another fifty members of the All-India Congress were jailed by the British Viceroy after the Congress voted for a "Quit India" campaign against the British colonial government. Gandhi and others were jailed for nearly two years.

1945 The second atomic bomb used on people was dropped on Nagasaki.
1966 Singapore became independent.

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