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Historical Event on 8/7/1906

First Tricoloured National Flag consisting of Green, Yellow and Red, with eight Lotuses on the top, second strip carrying ""Vande Matara"" in Devnagri and the third strip having Sun and Cresent Moon, was hoisted at Green Park in Calcutta by Surendranath Banerjee.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/24/1946Gandhiji meets Cabinet Mission.
12/1/1921Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, great nationalist leader, social reformer and freedom fighter was arrested by the British police for six months and sent to jail.
12/1/1921Mahmud Gawan was appointed as Prime Minister, an office which he held till his execution.
12/29/1938Mahavir Prasad Dvivedi, famous litterateur, writer, poet and editor, died at the age of 74.
9/24/193119 people were killed by police during the anti-Hindu rioting in Kashmir.
7/7/196294 people died in an Italian DC-8 air crash near Bombay.
6/19/1871Madhavrao Sapre was born.
6/11/1976Indira Gandhi and Brezhnev sign the Moscow Declaration of Friendship and Cooperation.
3/26/1991Chautala loses majority after the disqualification of three Janata Dal (S) members. Janata Party merges with Janata Dal (S).
7/22/1956Quake shatters town of Anjar; claiming 117 lives, 800 people were missing.