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Historical Event on 4/8/1894
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, famous novelist and writer of national song 'Vande Mataram', died at the age of 55. Some of his writings are 'Anandmath' and 'Kapal Kundala'.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/28/1977 | Sumitranandan Pant, famous Hindi poet and literaeur, died. |
| 9/10/1920 | Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao was born at Hadagali in Karnataka. In 1945 he put forward the ""theory of estimation"" in statistics. His formulae and therorems, for instance the ""Cramer-Rao inequality"", ""The Fisher-Rao theorem"" and ""Rao-Black Wellistaion"" are now part of any standard textbook of statistics. For his significant contributions, Rao received the S. S. Bhatnagar Award, the Meghnad Saha Medal and the Guy medal. |
| 12/1/1900 | Chidambaranar Thiru Thamizaringar, great author, journalist and homeopath, was born at Sirukadambur, Tamil Nadu. |
| 6/6/1935 | Harry Crews, great US writer and actor (Indian Runner), was born. |
| 12/14/1910 | Upendranath Ashok, noted writer, was born. |
| 8/3/1905 | Uma Datt Sraswat, famous writer, was born at Biswan in U.P. |
| 12/14/1999 | India lost to Australia by 285 runs in Adelaide in the first cricket Test. |
| 1/3/1987 | Arvind Deshpande, famous actor, died. |
| 11/22/1968 | Lok Sabha passed notification to change the name of Madras state as Tamil Nadu. |
| 3/23/1913 | Indian Muslim Conference passes resolution demanding immediate self-government. |
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