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Historical Event on 8/7/1905

The first political documentary ootage was the Great Bengal Partition Movement: Meeting and Procession shot by Jyotish Sarkar and Jamshedji F. Madan in Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/16/1960International Telex Service between India and U.K. started.
8/27/1870Sharmajivi Sangha was established in Calcutta by Sashipada Banerji.
1/23/1993Indian Airlines B737 crashes at Aurangabad, 61 die.
3/28/1914Komagata Maru sailed from Hong Kong to Vancouver with 351 Sikhs and 21 Punjabi Muslim youths under the captaincy of Sardar Gurjeet Singh as a part of 'Ghadar' Movement.
2/17/1976New Zealand score their first innings win in Tests vs India.
10/4/1997Two top executives of Turkish firm 'Karsan', accused in Rs. 133 crore urea import scam case, were remanded to police custody.
6/15/1899Roy Chowdhury Devipasad, modern Indian sculptor and painter, was born.
8/15/1947Lord Louis Mountbatten took charge as the first British Governor General of Indian Union and occupied this office till June 20, 1948.
9/3/1993Pawar resigns from Lok Sabha to take up the newly won Maharashtra Legislative Council seat.
1/28/1996Dev Kanta Baruah, first President of former Congress, passed away at New Delhi at the age of 82.