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Historical Event on 8/7/1887
Kasturi Shriniwas Iyengar, politician and journalist, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/1/1996 | International women's master Anupama Gokhale of Bharat Petroleum becomes the first woman in the history of Indian chess to win an all-India level international rating tournament with her bagging the Mohammed Hassan memorial title. |
| 7/22/1925 | Homi Jehangir Teleyarkhan, social worker, was born. |
| 12/27/1987 | Vijaypal Singh sets a record for TJ in 16.79s at Trivandrum . |
| 12/4/1829 | Britain abolished ""sati"" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre) |
| 4/18/1971 | Gavaskar makes 220 in second innings vs West Indies after 124 in first. |
| 1/27/1904 | R. P. Kanitkar, veteran writer, nationalist, journalist and editor, was born. |
| 11/3/1992 | Premnath, hero and villan of Hindi film industry, passed away. |
| 6/23/1935 | Ram Kolarkar, famous marathi author and editor, was born. |
| 6/5/1993 | Unlawful Activities (prevention) Tribunal headed by Justice P N Nagi upholds the ban on Islamic Sevak Sangh. |
| 10/1/1909 | Gandhiji wrote to Tolstoy regarding Passive Resistance movement. |
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