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Historical Event on 2/7/1908
Manmanath Gupta was born.
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| 4/17/1990 | Gas explodes on passenger train in Kumrahar, India killing 80 people. |
| 8/29/1923 | Sir Richard Attenborough, famous actor and director (Gandhi, Young Winston), was born. |
| 8/27/1958 | Metric system of weights and measures introduced. |
| 8/5/1905 | Subhadrakumari Chauvhan, famous Hindi poet, was born. |
| 12/11/1994 | H.D. Deve Gowda, Janata Dal leader, assumes office as CM of Karnataka. |
| 5/18/1933 | Gandhiji commences at noon 21 days' fast for self-purification; released unconditionally at 9 p.m. |
| 3/11/1975 | Battle between Marathas and Nizam at Kharda. |
| 3/4/1919 | Jagtindar Nath Beri, physics expert, was born. |
| 2/14/1891 | Stephen Smith, greatest pioneer of air borne mail, was born at Strawberry Hill, Shillong, Assam. |
| 12/29/1983 | Gavaskar makes the highest Test Cricket score by an Indian, 236* vs West Indies. |
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