On this day in 1947, Pakistan became an independent state. Some cynics, and Gandhi, saw this as a day of tragedy when a nation (India) was torn in two. I’m the glass half full type, so I’ll say it was a pretty good deal. But, you know, that’s the thing with dates and history. Let me run down some other seemingly tragic incidents on that same date (not the same year, though) and try to look at them from that very glass half full point of view.
