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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 |
| 10/21/1934 | Loknayak Jayprakash Narayan and his friends established the 'Congress Socialist Party' and Acharya Narendra Dev was its President and JP was its Gen. Secretary. |
| 8/4/1931 | Narendra Shankar Tamhane, dependable Indian cricket wicket-keeper (1950's), was born in Bombay. |
| 2/10/1957 | Pranab Pankaj Roy, cricketer (son of Pankaj, Indian batsman 1982), was born in Calcutta. |
| 2/23/1997 | Successful test firing of the 250-km version of the Prithvi missile. |
| 4/7/1920 | Ravi Shankar Bhattacharya, renowned Sitar player (Sounds of India), was born in Banaras, India. |
| 4/2/1948 | Communist leader S.A. Dange arrested in Bombay. |
| 9/15/1948 | The India flag carrying vessel reached Bombay Port. |
| 9/30/1996 | Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne, Sri Lankan social scientist, received the Gandhi Peace Prize 1996. |
| 1/14/1969 | Madras State renamed Tamil Nadu. |
| 8/6/2000 | Sundararajan Kidambi becomes the new International Master in the Beil Open chess championship at Biel. |
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