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Historical Event on 8/7/1905
The first political documentary ootage was the Great Bengal Partition Movement: Meeting and Procession shot by Jyotish Sarkar and Jamshedji F. Madan in Calcutta.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
9/30/1908 | Ram Dhari Singh Dinkar, famous Hindi novelist, was born. |
3/7/1974 | T. T. Krishnamachari, former Finance Minister, passed away. |
7/12/1947 | Pochiah Krishnamurthy, great Indian cricket wicket-keeper (1971 WI tour), was born in Hyderabad. |
6/22/1880 | Nilmoni Phukan, greatest social reformer, prolific writer of Assam, poet, editor, journalist and lawyer, was born at Dibrugarh, Assam. |
10/26/1952 | Pakistan's first Test cricket win vs India. Fazal Mahmood took 12 wkts . |
12/31/1998 | Air Chief Marshal Anil Yashwant Tipnis, PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He is the 18th Air Chief Marshal. |
10/28/1997 | Govt. extends ceasefire in Nagaland by 3 months from October 31. |
8/12/1979 | Heavy rains resulted in bursting of a dam thus causing floods in Moorvi and Lilapur in Gujarat, killing over 1,335 people. |
7/8/1930 | The King opens India House in the Aldwych, appealing for peace in India at London. |
4/29/1979 | Raja Mahendra Pratap, great revolutionary freedom fighter, passed away in New Delhi at the age of 93. |
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