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Historical Event on 2/7/1983
Eastern News Agency was established in Calcutta .
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/21/1993 | Naxals free Andhra Pradesh Congress (I) MLA P.Balaraju and a govt. official after 22 days in captivity. |
| 10/20/1997 | Veerappan, the forest brigand, releases the six hostages after 12 days. |
| 4/14/1990 | Veena Vidwan S. Balachander passed away. |
| 4/1/1997 | Govt. clarifies it is illegal to carry a child on a two-wheeler in addition to a pillion rider. |
| 4/6/1955 | Vinayak Maharaj Masurkar, great Samarth Saint, died. |
| 11/18/1960 | Raghunath Chaudhary, famous natural poet of Assam, passed away. |
| 8/12/1979 | Heavy rains resulted in bursting of a dam thus causing floods in Moorvi and Lilapur in Gujarat, killing over 1,335 people. |
| 6/10/1955 | Prakash Padukone, internationally famous Badminton player, was born. |
| 8/4/1997 | Nilesh Kulkarni becomes the first Indian to take a wicket with his first ball in Test Cricket (Colombo). |
| 8/15/1872 | Sri Aurobindo Man Mohan Ghosh born in Calcutta. He was a renaissance yoga philosopher, freedom fighter and teacher. His 30-volume work discusses the 'superman', a metaphor for the divinely transformed individual soul. He withdrew from the world in 1910 and founded International Ashram in Pondicherry. |
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