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Historical Event on 8/6/1925

Surendra Nath Banerjee died. He was one of the founders of mordern India and proponent of autonomy within the British Commonwealth. He was President of Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad.

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2/1/1797Lord Cornwallis was sworn in as Governor General of India for a second time in England. However, he did not proceed to India till 1805.
8/1/1957National Book Trust inaugurated.
3/22/1964200 die in communal violence in the industrial towns of Jamshedpur and Rourkela.
12/20/1920Justice Ali Sayyed Murtuza Fazal  was born.
6/3/1901Mahakavi G. Sankara Kurup, Malayalam poet, was born. He was the first winner of the conveted Gyaanpeeth Award in 1965 for his poems "Odakkuzhal" in Malayalam.
2/2/1967US President Johnson orders consignment of 2 mil. tons of food grains to be sent to India.
6/11/1991Forty die in rioting in Srinigar, Kashmir.
2/18/1988Jan Nayak Karpoori Thakur, freedom fighter, political leader, great social reformer, teacher and national president of Samyukta Socialist Party, passed away.
8/13/1951Acharya Kishoridas Vajpayee passed away.
9/21/1746French expeditionary army occupies Labourdonnais & Dupleix Madras.