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Historical Event on 4/8/1894

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, famous novelist and writer of national song 'Vande Mataram', died at the age of 55. Some of his writings are 'Anandmath' and 'Kapal Kundala'.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/26/1993Swami Chinmayananda is named 1992 Hindu of the Year for a lifetime of dynamic service to Sanatana Dharma worldwide. He attained 'mahasamadhi' on July 26 at age 77.
2/18/1996Kenya's first full One Day International Cricket match at Cricket World Cup vs India. Tendulkar scored 127* and India won over Kenya.
2/10/1943Gandhi begins hunger strike to protest imprisonment. This strike lasted for 21 days till March 3.
1/3/1919Shambhu Pan, cricket Test Umpire for 9 tests from 1960-70, was born at Bengal.
9/26/1919Rotary Club's first Indian meeting was held.
5/13/1648Construction of the Red Fort at Dehli was completed.
3/1/1993Narayan Ganesh Goray passed away (1-5-98).
8/3/1957Devdas Gandhi, son of Rashtrapita Mahatma Gandhiji and noted journalist, passed away.
11/5/1995Narsimha Rao, PM, reaches Argentina for G-15 summit at Buenos Aires.
8/15/1872Sri Aurobindo Man Mohan Ghosh born in Calcutta. He was a renaissance yoga philosopher, freedom fighter and teacher. His 30-volume work discusses the 'superman', a metaphor for the divinely transformed individual soul. He withdrew from the world in 1910 and founded International Ashram in Pondicherry.