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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.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/13/1930 | Swarup Kishan Reu, cricket test umpire for 17 tests from 1978-85, was born in Delhi and was honoured by Padmashree in 1986. He joins the record of umpiring most Tests for India. |
| 5/29/1952 | The Socialist Party and Krishak Mazdoor Praja Party decide to form a single parliamentary party. |
| 2/19/1995 | National Research Centre for Oil Palm(NRCOP), the only institute exclusively devoted to Oil Palm research in India, was established. |
| 12/6/1946 | Anglo-Indian talks end in failure after three days at London. |
| 11/9/1999 | BJP asks Kalyan Singh to step down, chooses Ram Prakash Gupta as his successor. |
| 1/6/1847 | Saint Tyagaraja, great musician, died. |
| 11/19/1999 | Indira Gandhi Peace prize is presented to a social worker of Bangladesh Muhammed Yunus. |
| 7/22/1991 | New industrial policy for liberalisation of economies announced in Parliament. |
| 7/1/1961 | Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian women astronaut (STS 87), was born in Karnal. |
| 12/11/1967 | 6.5 earthquake in West India, 170 killed. |
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