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Historical Event on 11/7/1888
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist, was born in Tiruchirapalli, South India. His work was influential in the growth of science in India. He was the recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics for the 1928 discovery now called 'Raman scattering'--a change in frequency observed when light is scattered in a transparent material. When monochromatic or laser light is passed through a transparent gas, liquid, or solid and is observed with the spectroscope, the normal spectral line has associated with it lines of longer and of shorter wavelength called the Raman spectrum. Thus the Raman effect is applied in spectrographic chemical analysis and in the determination of molecular structure.
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| 2/6/1939 | Sayaji Rao Gaekwad III of Baroda, great nationalist and social reformer, passed away. |
| 4/29/1997 | R. N. Malhotra, 71, former RBI Governor, died. |
| 12/30/1974 | Opening of the fifth Indian Film Festival. It was presided over by Satyajit Ray at New Delhi. |
| 7/1/1949 | M. Venkaiah Rangaiah Naidu was born in Chavatapalem, Distt. Nellore (Andhra Pradesh). |
| 3/13/1878 | The Vernacular Press Act was passed which subsequently made the Amrita Bazar Patrika of Calcutta an English newspaper. |
| 2/23/1908 | Maharaj Kumar Raghubir Sinh, famous Hindi writer and historian, was born. |
| 10/2/1906 | Raja Ravi Verma died at Attingal near Trivandrum, Kerala. He is remembered for his artistic work in 'Ram Panchayatan', 'Vishwamitra-Menaka', 'Shakuntala writing a letter', 'Shiv Parvati'. A commemorative stamp was issued by the Postal Department on April 29, 1971 in his honour. |
| 10/25/1932 | Pearless' investment company was established. |
| 8/20/1917 | Raja Kulkarni, freedom fighter and politician, was born at Mhaswa village in Maharashra. |
| 12/14/1920 | Akali Dal established. |
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