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Historical Event on 8/7/1905

The first political documentary ootage was the Great Bengal Partition Movement: Meeting and Procession shot by Jyotish Sarkar and Jamshedji F. Madan in Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/9/1996India wins India-Pakistan World Cup Quater Final cricket match in Bangalore (Wills World Cup). This was the last international match played by Javed Miandad.
1/5/1974Virendranath Dasgupta, great revolutionary, died.
2/2/1968TERLS dedicated to the United Nations.
1/4/1958Waverley John Anderson, Scottish viscount and Governor of Bengal, died at the age of 75.
11/30/1982World premier of Sir Richard Attenborough's 'Gandhi' held in New Delhi.
2/1/1994PM Rao attends the World Economic Forum meeting at Davos, Switzerland.
9/12/1961Nalin Vilochan Sharma, great Hindi critic, died.
10/26/1890Martyr Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi was born at Allahabad. He was also the editor of revolutionary weekly 'Pratap'.
10/2/1986Rajiv Gandhi survives assassination attempt made by Sikh extremists at Raj Ghat.
4/13/1984Kerala Government drops Silent Valley Project and declares the entire area a national park.