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Historical Event on 8/6/1905

Chittaranjan Das ""Desh Bandhu"", freedom fighter and advocate, started an organisation named ""Swadeshi Mandali"". He also founded magazine named Narayana in 1914 and a Bengali weekly in 1922 and the daily 'Forward'.

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3/6/1990India wins Indira Gandhi Gold Cup hockey tournament.
7/22/1956Quake shatters town of Anjar; claiming 117 lives, 800 people were missing.
10/15/1932First Indian commercial airliner service 'Tata Sons Ltd' started. (Tata Airlines)
12/5/1999India's Yukta Mookhey is crowned Miss World.
1/4/1889Judge M. Patanjali Sastri, Chief Justice of India, was born.
11/29/1953Benegal Narsing Rau, foremost Indian Jurist of his time, passed away at Zurich. He performed some very prominent duties towards the nation. He was Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and a judge at the Permanent Court of International Justice at Hague.
1/18/1913Gandhiji refers in ''Indian Opinion'' the possibility of return home to India by mid-year.
11/5/1950Faiyaj Khan, famous singer of Indian classical music, died.
9/30/1687Aurangzeb acquired the famous Golconda fort near Hyderabad from the Qutub Shahi Sultan Tana Shah due to the treachery of his General Panni.
4/14/1907P. C. Joshi, famous Leftist leader and thinker, was born.