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Historical Event on 1/8/1884

Keshav Chunder Sen, nationalist leader of Bengal, social worker and good orator of Brahma Samaj, passed away at his home in Lily Cottage, Calcutta. He was one of the first Indians to sow the seeds of secularism in our country. He strongly believed that education was the basic necessity to change the society.

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12/1/1886Raja Mahendra Pratap, great revolutionary freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Musran in U.P.
7/5/1917'Hindumashinary Society' was established by Gajanan Bhaskar Vaidya.
3/29/1995Harindra Dave, chief editor of Janmabhumi Group and Gujrati author, passed away.
5/27/1995National Centre for Labour launched in Bangalore to give a boost to the unorganised worker's movement in India.
3/30/1992Satyajit Ray received the honorary Oscar award..
1/10/199627th International Film Festival of India begins in New Delhi.
2/25/1992Railway budget proposes 20\% hike in upper class passenger fares.
1/1/1967Day's play in the Calcutta Test vs West Indies cancelled by riots.
4/13/1984India beat Pak by 58 runs to win the first Cricket Asia Cup in Sharjah.
5/7/1861Guru Dev Rabindranath Thakur alias Tagore, novelist, painter, educationist and freedom fighter, was born in Calcutta.