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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.
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| 7/26/1991 | Indian, UN Observer Mission in El Salvador joined (ONUSAL from Jul 1991 To Apr 1995). |
| 5/1/1992 | C. Arjun, famous music director, passed away. |
| 11/7/1971 | India admits forces entered Bangladesh to silence artillery. |
| 9/30/1972 | Pakistani troops shell into the Indian zone of Kashmir. |
| 1/18/1959 | Miss Meera Behn, follower of Gandhi, left India for good. |
| 1/20/1993 | Captain Karamjeet Singh, first Pramveer Chakra Awardee, passed away. |
| 1/1/1956 | No. 20 Squadron, Indian Air Force's first jet squadron equipped with Vampires, was formed and christened 'The Lightnings'. |
| 4/22/1870 | Vladimir IIyich Lenin, revolutionary freedom fighter and politician, was born at Simbrisk, Volga. |
| 10/1/1928 | Shivaji Ganeshan, famous actor, was born. |
| 2/16/1998 | Delhi-Tamil Nadu Ranji Trophy super-league encounter in Chennai comes to an abrupt halt with Delhi skipper and batsman Ajay Sharma sighting boot marks short of the good length area. |
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