Today Importance - 7th August

Today Importance - 7th August

7-August-1868

The first modern Bengali poet and critic Pratham Chaudhary (Birbal) was born.

7-August-1871

The great modern artist and painter Abanindranath Tagore was born in Jorasanko, Kolkata.

7-August-1887

Kasturi Srinivasan Iyana, politician and journalist, was born.

7-August-1888

Literary critic and versatile Gujarati writer Balram (Naval ram Lakshmi ram Pandya) passed away.

7-August-1905

Indian National Congress declared boycott of British goods for the first time against the partition of Bengal and also called for buying 'Swadeshi'.

7-August-1905

The primary political narrative was The Incomparable Bengal Segment Development: Jyotisar Sarkar in Calcutta and Jamshed F. Meetings and processions were shot by Madan.

7-August-1906

The first tricolour national flag of green, yellow and red, with eight lotuses on top, with the second stripe inscribed "Vanda Matter" in Devanagari and the third stripe with the sun and crescent, was hoisted by Surendra Nath Banerjee at Green Park, Kolkata.

7-August-1925

Manakumbu Sambas Ivana Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and obtained his PhD in 1952 from the School of Agriculture, Cambridge. He developed high-yielding varieties of wheat and rice and completed hard crosses in potato and jute varieties. In 1971, he was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for instilling new confidence in the country's agricultural potential. He was the director of the International Rice Research Institute of the Philippines. He was also the first agricultural scientist to win the Albert Einstein World Science Prize in 1986.

7-August-1934

Gandhi started fasting as a form of atonement for the violent treatment meted out to a Hindu leader by some of his followers.

7-August-1941

The great Indian poet, great dramatist, Nobel laureate, social reformer, freedom fighter, painter and philosopher, Rabindranath Debendranath Tagore "Gurudom" breathed his last in Kolkata at the age of 80. He will always be remembered as the author of the national anthem "Jana Gina Mana" and the founder of Visa Bharati, Shanti Niketan etc.

7-August-1947

Best services launched by Mumbai Municipal Corporation

7-August-1980

Mother Teresa visits the poor in the Bronx, New York.

7-August-1982

Language specialist, Educationist, Sanskrit researcher, Head of JB School and Padma Bhushan awardee Krishna Kant Radha Kant Handok died. He also composed scholarly works like 'Nayasadcharita', 'Yashastilaka and Indian Culture'. His original work, written in Sanskrit in the 10th century by Someday, is an encyclopaedic work on Jainism and Indian thought and culture.

7-August-1985

National champion Geeti Shetty became the third Indian to become the World Amateur Billiards Champion by defeating Australia's Robert Marshall.

7-August-1986

The Lok Sabha passed the 53rd Constitution Amendment Bill granting statehood to Mizoram.

7-August-1988

NT Rama Rao President and V.P. Singh is the convenor of the Public Front.

7-August-1990

The government accepted the recommendations of the Mandal Commission of India and decided to reserve 27% jobs for backward classes. Violent protests in parts of North India against the Mandal Commission.

7-August-1990

The Association Bureau has supported the setting up of the Indian Telecom (Program) Administration.

7-August-1991

India successfully test-fired Prithvi-III surface-to-air missile from Sriharikota.

7-August-1998

The public authority reported a banking and unfamiliar trade bundle for the improvement of the data innovation and programming ventures following the proposals of the Public Team.

7-August-1999

Prime Minister AB Vajpayee appealed to the United States to designate Pakistan as a terrorist state.