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Historical Event on 5/7/1861

Guru Dev Rabindranath Thakur alias Tagore, novelist, painter, educationist and freedom fighter, was born in Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/5/1993The government de-reserves the mining industry throwing it open to private sector as well as to foreign investment.
5/31/1818Samachar Darpan, the first vernacular newspaper, was published in Bengali language by Carey and Marshman from Serampore.
7/23/1904The Great Indian Peninsula Railway started First Class restaurant cars on its mail trains.
2/20/1982The Kangla Tongbi war memorial built for 221 members of Advance Base Depot, who laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks, was finally shifted to College of Materials Management Jabalpur. The original memorial was erected on 15 Apr 1946 from local stone and the main epitaph displayed above is of black Naga stone.
9/1/1999Ace athlete Jyotirmoyee Sikdar is awarded the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna; coaches Bahadur Singh, Hargobind Singh (athletics) and Gurbax Singh Sandhu (boxing) the Dronacharya awards during the Arjuna awards function at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Delhi.
7/29/1748Boscawen landed 25 km south of Pondicherry.
11/20/1917J.C. Bose Research Institute was established in Calcutta.
2/28/1967General Election ( 4th) of India ends.
3/2/1994Autonomous Hill Council for Leh set up.
2/27/1996In the Jain hawala case, non bailable warrants of arrest issued against 10 politicians including BJP leader L.K. Advani, former Dy. PM Devi Lal and former Union Ministers.