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Historical Event on 8/7/1906
First Tricoloured National Flag consisting of Green, Yellow and Red, with eight Lotuses on the top, second strip carrying ""Vande Matara"" in Devnagri and the third strip having Sun and Cresent Moon, was hoisted at Green Park in Calcutta by Surendranath Banerjee.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/14/1907 | P. C. Joshi, famous Leftist leader and thinker, was born. |
| 1/26/1876 | Railway route started between Mumbai and Calcutta. |
| 12/22/1940 | Manvendranath Rai established the Radical Democratic Party. |
| 11/20/1917 | Ram Gopal, great Indies /English classical dancer (Blue Peter, Purple Plain), was born. |
| 5/27/1857 | Nana Sahib was captured at Kanpur. |
| 4/7/1920 | Ravi Shankar Bhattacharya, renowned Sitar player (Sounds of India), was born in Banaras, India. |
| 11/7/1958 | Nehru said the role of Gen. Mohammed Ayub Khan in Pakistan had increased the 'risk and danger of war' between India and Pakistan. |
| 1/2/1757 | After the Battle of Plassey, Clive, Britisher, defeated Siraj-ud-Daulah, Mir Jafar, Nawab of Bengal and re-captured Calcutta, after it had been seized by the Nawab of Bengal who had used the ""Black Hole"" to imprison British captives. |
| 9/28/1827 | A few mountain battery trains flourished and kept the Indian component alive as part of the Royal artillery. Recently, it has been established that 8 Company Bombay Artillery survived axing and is now 5 (Bombay) Mountain Battery. This day is now celebrated as the Raising Day of the Regiment of Artillery. |
| 11/22/1916 | Shanti Ghosh, great revolutionary freedom fighter, was born at Calcutta. She was one of the accused in famous Chargaon ammunition plot and assassination of General Lemen, Inspector General of Dhaka. |
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