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Historical Event on 8/6/1905

Chittaranjan Das ""Desh Bandhu"", freedom fighter and advocate, started an organisation named ""Swadeshi Mandali"". He also founded magazine named Narayana in 1914 and a Bengali weekly in 1922 and the daily 'Forward'.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/24/1851First official telegraph line was opened between Calcutta and Daimond Harbour spanning 33.8 km.
4/24/1972Jamini Roy, Padmabhushan awardee and famous painter, passed away.
9/30/1999India successfully test-fired its multi-target surface-to-air missile 'Akash'.
8/18/1951Indian Institute of Technology was opened in Kharagpur, West Bengal.
5/2/1968Lok Sabha passed the Public Providend Fund Act.
1/16/1948Pakistan charges India with systematic campaign to wipe out Muslims.
9/11/2000A Delhi High Court exonerates senior Congress(I) leader and former Union Minister H.K.L. Bhagat in a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case in Delhi (in Mansarovar Park in East Delhi on November 1, 1984).
12/1/1965Border Security Force was organised, which would be armed and trained to man the International Border with Pakistan.
4/3/1914Sam Hormuj Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, India's first Field Marshal, was born. He was better known as ""Sam Manekshaw"".
4/19/1960Meeting of Afro-Asian Conference at New Delhi.