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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 |
| 7/4/1986 | Sunil Gavaskar celebrated his 115th Test in cricket at Edgbaston. |
| 5/17/1957 | Nehru, who went to Ceylon to celebrate the 2,500th anniversary of the founding of Buddhism, calls for an end to nuclear tests. |
| 4/15/1976 | India announces it will send an envoy to Peking, first time in 15 years. |
| 5/8/1725 | John Lovewell, US Indian fighter, passed away in a battle. |
| 2/28/1997 | The samadhi of Morarji Desai - Abhay Ghat - near Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad to be converted to a national monument, this was decided on Feburary 11. |
| 9/11/1985 | Sri Lanka score their first Test victory by 149 runs against India. |
| 1/19/1997 | Air India triumphs in the National Women's Cricket championship in Calcutta. |
| 11/10/1960 | First Nagpur session of Maharashtra State. |
| 1/11/1858 | Shridhar Pathak, famous Hindi poet, was born. |
| 7/28/1921 | Congress decided to boycott the visit of Prince of Wales in India. |
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