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Historical Event on 8/7/1925
Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986.

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8/7/1925	Queen Elizabeth I granted its Royal Charter to the 218 Knights and merchants of the City of London who formed the East India Company. The venture failed to achieve its stated objectives -- it made little impression on the Dutch control of the spice trade and could not establish a lasting outpost in the East Indies.
3/17/1982	President's rule in Kerala.
7/23/1996	R. Bhattacharji was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He is heading this office till date.
3/6/1915	Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore met for the first time at Shantiniketan.
10/30/1966	First meeting of the Shiv Sena at Shivaji Park.
11/23/1991	Bhaskaracharya Research Institute established at Dhule.
8/19/1993	Utpal Dutt, famous actor, writer, director and producer, died. He was 64.
5/28/1907	Purohit Dingambar Vinayak (Nanasaheb), leader in Maharashtra, was born.
1/18/1992	Muthuswami Pillai, father of Bharat Natyam classical dance, passed away.
11/5/1956	Nehru breaks silence condemning Soviets for repression in Hungary.

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