7-August-1868 | Pratham Chaudhary (Birbal), modern Bengali poet and critic, was born. |
7-August-1871 | Abanindranath Tagore, great modern artist and painter, was born at Jorasanko in Calcutta. |
7-August-1887 | Kasturi Shriniwas Iyengar, politician and journalist, was born. |
7-August-1888 | Navalram (Navalram Laxmiram Pandya), literature critic and versatile Gujarati author, died. |
7-August-1905 | Indian
National Congress declared to boycott the British goods for the first
time against Bengal partition, and also advocated to buy ' Swadeshi. |
7-August-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. |
7-August-1906 | First
Tricoloured National Flag consisting of Green, Yellow and Red, with
eight Lotuses on the top, second strip carrying ""Vande Matara"" in
Devnagri and the third strip having Sun and Cresent Moon, was hoisted at
Green Park in Calcutta by Surendranath Baner |
7-August-1925 | Monkombu
Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and
took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He
developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished
difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded
The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the
agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the
International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first
agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in
1986. |
7-August-1934 | Gandhi begins a fast for penance following the violent treatment of a Hindu leader by some of his followers. |
7-August-1941 | Rabindranath
Devendranath Tagore ""Gurudev"", great Indian poet, voluminous
playwright, Noble Laureate, social reformer, freedom fighter, painter
and philosopher, passed away at Calcutta at the age on 80 years. He will
be always remembered for the national song ""Jana Gana Mana"" and as a
founder of Vishwa Bharati, Shantiniketen |
7-August-1947 | BEST services were started by Mumbai Mahanagarpalika. |
7-August-1980 | Mother Teresa visits the poor in Bronx at New York. |
7-August-1982 | Krishnakanta
Radhakant Handique, linguist, educationist, Sanskrit scholar, principal
of J.B. College and Padma Bhushan awardee, passed away. He also
authored the learned works 'Naisadhacarita', 'Yasastilaka and Indian
Culture' etc. His original treatise written in Sanskrit by Somaveda in
the 10th century is an encyclopedic work dealing with Jainism and Indian
thoughts and culture. |
7-August-1985 | Geet
Sethi, national champion, was the third Indian to become World Amateur
Billiards Champion by beating Robert Marshal of Australia |
7-August-1986 | Lok Sabha passes Constitution 53rd Amendment bill conferring statehood on Mizoram. |
7-August-1988 | N. T. Ramarao elected chairman and V.P. Singh the convenor of the National Front. |
7-August-1990 | Govt.
of India accepts the Mandal Commission's recommendations and decides to
reserve 27\% jobs for the backward classes. Violent protests rock parts
of Northern India against Mandal Commission. |
7-August-1990 | Union Cabinet approves setting up of Indian Broadcasting (Programme) Service. |
7-August-1991 | India successfully launches Prithvi-III, surface-to-air missile from Sriharikota. |
7-August-1998 | The
Government announces a banking and foreign exchange package for
development of the information technology and software industry
following the recommendations of the National Task Force. |
7-August-1999 | A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, appeals to the United States to name Pakistan as a terrorist state. |
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