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Historical Event on 8/7/1871

Abanindranath Tagore, great modern artist and painter, was born at Jorasanko in Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/3/1985The week comprising of five working days was implemented in Central Government Offices for its staff.
5/1/1909Madame Bhikaji Cama secretly left London and went to France where she was wrote and spoke about the cruelty of Britishers.
3/24/1947Lord Louis Mountbatten came to India.
11/18/1999Sonia Gandhi pleads the President on Nalini's case.
12/29/1885A group of middle-class intellectuals in India, some of them British, found the Indian National Congress to be a voice of Indian opinion to the British government. This was the origin of the later Congress Party which was founded in Bombay.
10/23/1990Following the arrest of its President L. K. Advani, who was leading a rathyathra to Ayodhya at Samasthipur in Bihar, BJP withdrew support to National Front Government.
1/1/1879Edward M Forster, English novelist (Howards End, Passage to India), was born.
6/25/1888Lord Louis Mountbatten, British politician, was born.
4/17/1799Srirangapatnam was surrounded by British Army in the fourth and last Mysore war which began in 1798. Tipu Sultan' was killed in the battle on 4th May. The East India Company announced the Seringapatanam Medal (1799).
11/8/1965British Indian Ocean Territory formed.