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Historical Event on 8/6/1905
Chittaranjan Das ""Desh Bandhu"", freedom fighter and advocate, started an organisation named ""Swadeshi Mandali"". He also founded magazine named Narayana in 1914 and a Bengali weekly in 1922 and the daily 'Forward'.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/6/1925 | Surendra Nath Banerjee died. He was one of the founders of mordern India and proponent of autonomy within the British Commonwealth. He was President of Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad. |
| 8/6/1925 | Banka Mahar, 'bhagwatbhakt', passed away by taking Samadhi. |
| 6/19/1871 | Madhavrao Sapre was born. |
| 7/21/1977 | K.S. Hegde elected Lok Sabha Speaker. |
| 4/5/1987 | The centenary of Bombay Fire Brigade was celebrated. (CIVIC). |
| 3/10/1959 | Mukundrao Ramarao Jaikar, great freedom fighter and famous lawyer, passed away. |
| 8/28/1928 | Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon, noted physicist and scientific advisor to the Prime Minister, was born at Mangalore in Karnataka. |
| 2/14/1932 | Madhubala (Mumtaj Begam), film actress, was born. |
| 12/27/1901 | Gandhiji moves resolution on South Africa at Congress. |
| 8/2/1922 | Gangaprasad Birla, great industrialist, was born. |
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