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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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| 10/24/1994 | Justice Ahmad Mushabber Ahmadi sworn in as Chief Justice of India. |
| 4/17/1977 | Swatantra Party was merged in Janata Party. |
| 3/1/2000 | Gopichand wins the Indian Oil Servo National badminton championship at Kochi-making it four in a row. |
| 8/6/1951 | Rukmini Lakshmipathi, great social reformer and leader, died. |
| 11/27/1994 | Shyam Vyas, veteran Hindi story writer, passed away. |
| 4/6/1997 | Gen. Kofi Annan,UN Secretary, arrives in New Delhi for NAM conference. |
| 10/24/1997 | Kerala bans ragging in educational institutions by an ordinance. |
| 8/22/1919 | Girijakumar Mathur, famous modern Hindi poet, was born. |
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