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Historical Event on 8/10/1755
Narayanrao Peshwa was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/3/1900 | Sagarmal Gopa, freedom fighter, was born. |
| 1/26/1882 | Telephone line started working between Mumbai and Calcutta. |
| 5/27/1994 | Tarktirth Laxmanshastri Joshi, internationally famous omnicient, passed away. |
| 9/23/1983 | Supreme Court upholds execution of criminals through hanging by rope. |
| 9/28/1991 | Shankar Guha Niyogi, an active trade union leader of Madhya Pradesh, was shot dead by unknown assailants. |
| 10/16/1905 | Bengal was partitioned by Lord Curzon on the pretext of it being too big to administer. Instead of dividing it on the basis of non-Bengali areas, the division was on the basis of Hindus and Muslims. Britishers thought that would succeed in increasing Hindu - Muslim tensions. The tremor of partition was felt throughout India and was regarded as an insult and challenge to Indian Nationalism. A movement was launched by the moderates. New method of protests 'Swadeshi and Swaraj' became the slogan of the common man and the whole of India was drawn into the national movement. |
| 9/22/1902 | Sorabjee Harmasji Colah, (right-hand batsman who batted in India's first two Tests), was born in Bombay. |
| 7/13/1907 | Hari Vishnu Kamat, great politician, was born. |
| 10/14/1998 | Prof. Amartya Sen (Indian Nobel Laureates), the economist-philosopher, awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his contribution to welfare economics. |
| 3/7/1956 | A gigantic steel tube plant opened in Jamshedpur. It was the first of its kind in India. |
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