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Historical Event on 8/7/1934
Gandhi begins a fast for penance following the violent treatment of a Hindu leader by some of his followers.
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| 6/22/1897 | The Chafekar brothers, Damodar and Balkrishna, shot British Officer Rand in Pune. This event played a very important role in the revolutionary freedom fighter. |
| 2/12/1990 | The Berlin Wall is taken down February 12. Germany is reunited over the next year. Warsaw Pact is dissolved. |
| 3/30/1992 | Satyajit Ray received the honorary Oscar award.. |
| 8/28/1976 | Second World Hindi Conference held in Mauritius. |
| 12/17/1938 | Charuchandra Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali story writer and novelist, died. |
| 7/31/1914 | Amar Nath Chawla, politician, was born at Taunggri, (Burma). |
| 11/19/1993 | Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development awarded to Czech President Vaclav Havel. |
| 9/10/1915 | Jatindranath Mukhrjee, great revolutionary, died after being wounded in a pitched battle between the revolutionaries and the police, aided by an army unit, in Balasore. |
| 11/20/1999 | Melody queen Lata Mangeshkar, senior journalist `Cho' Ramaswamy, eminent jurist Fali S. Nariman and veteran RSS leader Nanaji Deshmukh nominated to the Rajya Sabha. |
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