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Historical Event on 7/8/1972
Sourav Chandidas Ganguly, cricketer (centuries in 1st two Tests for India 1996), was born in Calcutta.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/2/1908 | Sri Aurobindo, freedom fighter, was arrested in Manik Tala Bomb explosion case. |
| 6/22/1994 | L. V. Prasad, father of South Indian film industry, died. |
| 6/22/1994 | Guru Arjun Dev, Sikh Guru, was born. |
| 9/24/1997 | E. S. Venkataramiah (72), former Chief Justice of India, died in Bangalore. |
| 11/13/1970 | Flooding ravages Ganges delta. 200,000 million killed. |
| 8/5/1994 | Yakub Abdul Razak Memon, a key accused in 1993's Bombay blast case, was arrested. |
| 9/11/1995 | PM Narsimha Rao inaugurated the State Panchayat minister's meet for discussing panchayat election, devolution of administrative and financial power to the local bodies. |
| 8/10/1988 | Ramakrishna Hegde resigns as CM of Karnataka on moral grounds in connection with phone tapping issue. |
| 11/8/1965 | Bashiruddin Ahmad, religious leader and litterateur, passed away. |
| 8/15/1947 | At the stroke of midnight, India is free after 163 years of British Raj. At the same time Muslims win a degree of freedom from Hindus. They have their own separate dominion Pakistan in the British Commonwealth Sect. |
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