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Historical Event on 5/7/1861
Guru Dev Rabindranath Thakur alias Tagore, novelist, painter, educationist and freedom fighter, was born in Calcutta.
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| 6/5/1974 | Smallpox epidemic in the country. |
| 4/1/1994 | Five ministers resign from the Wilfred D'souza Government in Goa. |
| 11/3/1966 | Hurricane strikes Bengal, killing 1,000. |
| 7/12/1920 | Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born. |
| 12/16/1867 | Amy Carmichael, Scotch Irish missionary, was born. She went to India in 1895 under the Zenana Missionary Society, remaining there without furlough until her death 56 years later. An invalid during her last 20 years, she worked to rescue children from the Hindus. |
| 10/21/1994 | Government notifies substantial increase in the ceiling on election expenses on Lok Sabha and Assembly polls. |
| 11/3/1908 | Shreyansprasad Jain, famous industrialist, was born. |
| 10/20/1991 | 6.1-7.1 earthquake in uttar Kashi and three northern districts of UP in the Himalayan foothills kills more than 1,600 people. |
| 3/9/1961 | Kotamaraju Rama Rao, famous journalist, passed away. |
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