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7 November

🇮🇳 In India

1858 Bipin Chandra Pal, nationalist, writer, orator, social reformer and freedom fighter, was born. He was one third of the “Lal Bal Pal” triumvirate. Pal was one of the main architects of the Swadeshi movement along with Sri Aurobindo.

1862 Bahadur Shah Zafar (Bahadur Shah II), the twentieth and last Mughal Emperor of India, died at Yangon, Burma.

1888 Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, physicist who got the Nobel Prize in Physics (1930) for his work in the field of light scattering, was born.

1950 King Tribhubana Bir Bikram of Nepal flees palace for refuge in Indian Embassy at Kathmandu.

🌎 Elsewhere

1504 Christopher Columbus returns from his fourth and last voyage.

1665 The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.

1867 Marie Curie, Polish-born French physicist, famous for her work on radioactivity, was born. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and the only woman to win the award in two different fields.

1917 The October Revolution (named after the dates of this event in the Julian calendar), the last phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, ended as the Bolshevik Party seized power in Russia, inaugurating the Soviet regime.

⭐ Significance

National Cancer Awareness Day is observed on November 7 in India. The day highlights the significance of increased awareness about cancer prevention and early detection for the general public.

India observes Infant Protection Day to spread awareness about the safety of infants and the importance of proper protection and care in order to prevent early mortality of both the new-borns and mothers.

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