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Historical Event on 8/9/1902
King Edward VII was crowned the emperor of Great Britain at Westminster Abbey after the death of his mother Queen Victoria. Earlier, he had held a grand function in which nearly 4,56,000 invitees celebrated this royal feast.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/13/1971 | General Insurance nationalized. |
| 7/19/1955 | Roger Michael Humphery Binny, Indian medium-pace all-rounder early eighties, was born at Bangalore. |
| 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. |
| 1/22/1903 | Shankar Das Banerji, lawyer and politician, was born at Calcutta. |
| 1/15/1784 | Sir William Jones, Judge and linguist, and Sir Warren Hastings established the Asiatic Society of Bengal at Calcutta. This was the first scholastic institution. |
| 11/9/1841 | Edward VII, King of England (1901-10), was born. |
| 4/24/1980 | Baba Gurbachan Singh, Nirankari chief, assassinated. His son named as the new chief. |
| 11/3/1999 | Dr. M. S. Swaminathan, well-known agricultural scientist, is selected for the UNESCO Gandhi gold medal. |
| 7/4/1900 | Swami Shivanand Saraswati, religious leader, was born. |
| 7/4/1900 | Mahmud Gawan was appointed as Prime Minister, an office which he held till his execution. |
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