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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 |
| 8/29/1612 | Battle at Surat in India; English fleet beats Portuguese. |
| 6/8/1948 | Malabar Princess', Air India's first international flight, takes off from Bombay to London via Cairo and Geneva. This was weekly air service was started between India to United Kingdom. |
| 9/4/1983 | INSAT-1B runs into snag, its solar array fails to deploy fully. |
| 11/19/1996 | Krishnarao Shiva Shelvankar, journalist and diplomat, passed away at 90. |
| 8/1/1920 | Bal Gangadhar Tilak, British-Indian Hindu leader, died at Bombay. |
| 6/17/1965 | Motilal, famous actor, died. |
| 6/17/1965 | Zahir Al-Din Muhammad Babur Shah, founder of Mughal dynasty, passed away at the age of 48 at Dhaulpur. |
| 12/31/1965 | Sivaramakrishan Laxman, right-hand batsman and leg break bowler, was born in Madras. |
| 5/22/1927 | Nihal Ahmed Maulavi Mo. Usman, leader in Maharashtra, was born. |
| 2/25/1927 | Balkrishna Buwa Echalkaranjikar, father of `Khyal Gayaki', passed away. |
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