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Historical Event on 1/8/1884
Keshav Chunder Sen, nationalist leader of Bengal, social worker and good orator of Brahma Samaj, passed away at his home in Lily Cottage, Calcutta. He was one of the first Indians to sow the seeds of secularism in our country. He strongly believed that education was the basic necessity to change the society.
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| 10/27/1907 | Brahma Bandhav Upadhyay died. |
| 9/7/1996 | Ajit Singh quits Congress and heads Tikait's party. |
| 7/1/1882 | Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, great professor, politician, physician, leader and veteran nationalist, was born at Patna. |
| 7/1/1882 | Pedro Alvaris, Portugese businessman, reached Calicut and established the first European factory in India. |
| 3/18/1974 | Buddhadev Basu, modern Bengali poet, story writer, playwright and critic, passed away. |
| 11/20/1917 | J.C. Bose Research Institute was established in Calcutta. |
| 10/17/1859 | Keshavlal Harshrai Dhruv, researcher and translator, was born. |
| 5/25/1996 | DMK-led coalition ministry headed by R.V. Janakiraman sworn in Pondicherry. |
| 2/23/1962 | Union government sets up an Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR) formed by the Department of Atomic Energy and work on Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) started. |
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