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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
11/15/1982Acharya Vinoba Bhave, great freedom fighter and social reformer, died (88 years) in Pawnar Ashram at Wardha near Nagpur, Maharashtra.
1/23/1809Veer Surendra Sai, freedom fighter and revolutionary, was born in Khinda village in the north of Sambalpur at Orissa.
5/19/1990S. R. Bommai unanimously elected President of JD.
7/19/1998Tremors measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale rocked Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.
9/30/2000India's Priyanka Chopra (18) wins the Miss World beauty pageant.
1/11/1994Shankarrao Savekar, veteran cameraman of film industry, passed away.
8/30/1645Indians and Dutch sign the peace treaty.
1/26/1882Telephone line started working between Mumbai and Calcutta.
3/20/1991Simultaneous polls in Tamil Nadu.
1/23/1976Gautam Buddha's lost city of Kapilavastu was found in an excavation.