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Historical Event on 8/7/1888
Navalram (Navalram Laxmiram Pandya), literature critic and versatile Gujarati author, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/18/1991 | 12 LTTE militants commit suicide. |
| 8/15/1872 | Sri 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. |
| 12/29/1965 | First Indian-made tank 'Vijayanta' rolled off the Avadi Heavy Vehicles factory. |
| 9/15/1876 | Sarat Chandra Chatterji, famous Bengali novelist and writer, was born at Debanandapur in Hoogly district. |
| 7/5/1947 | Indian Act, 1947 was presented in British Parliament, which was then accepted by the emperor on 18th July. |
| 3/9/1997 | Mumbai takes Wills Trophy in Mohali. |
| 11/16/1998 | Kiran More, former Indian stumper, calls it a day from first class cricket at Baroda. |
| 4/4/1898 | Hiralal Sen and his brother Motilal Sen purchased a Bioscope Cinematographic Machine from London. The first show of imported films was arranged by them at Classic Theatre on April 4, after which they formed 'The Royal Bioscope Co.,' controlled by H. L. Sen & Bros., 85/2, Maszid Badi Street, Calcutta. The Bioscope Company started touring the provinces of Bengal, Orissa and Bihar. |
| 1/14/1984 | Gujarati Daily 'Samkalin' of Indian Express Group published. |
| 7/9/1994 | Surendranath, Governor of Punjab, died. |
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