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Historical Event on 8/1/1916

Mrs. Annie Besant in cooperation with Bal Gangadhar Tilak started the Home Rule League Movement with Dadabhai Naoroji as its President.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/1/1992Mohan Choty, comedy film actor, passed away.
6/12/1960783 Sikhs are arrested while demonstrating for an independent Sikh state in New Delhi.
3/7/1996Union Cabinet clears decks for extending benefits of reservation to Dalit Christians.
4/20/2000A full bench of the Madras High Court quashes the Tamil Nadu Government order making Tamil (or mother tongue) as the compulsory medium of instruction in all schools in the State up to Standard V.
9/20/1993Narsimha Rao, Prime Minister, arrives in Teheran on a three-day visit.
9/10/1980Mangalore University established.
7/17/1937Delhi-Calcutta Express Train derailed near Patna killing 95.
7/17/1937Saint Chokhoba passed away.
7/17/1937Surdas (1483-1563), blind Hindi bard and singer of Agra whose hymns to Krishna are compiled in the 'Sursagar', was born in Sihi village near Delhi.
2/26/1976V. S. Khandekar was honoured by Bhartiya Gyanpeeth Award for the novel 'Yayati'.