On This Day
7 March
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1911 Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan, popularly known by his nom de plume Agyeya, Indian writer, poet, novelist, literary critic, journalist, translator and revolutionary in Hindi language, was born in Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh. A pioneer of modern trends in Hindi poetry, as well as in fiction, criticism and journalism, he got the Jnanpith Award of 1978.
- 1961 Govind Ballabh Pant, freedom fighter and the first chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, died at New Delhi. Alongside Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabh Bhai Patel, Pant was a key figure in the movement for India's Independence and later a pivotal figure in the Indian Government.
- 1987 Sunil Gavaskar became the first batsman to cross 10,000 runs in the history of Test cricket.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1876 Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the telephone.
- 1905 Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Return of Sherlock Holmes collection in London after public pressure to revive his famous detective Sherlock Holmes. In The Final Problem (1893), Conan Doyle had killed off Holmes in a final battle with the criminal mastermind Professor James Moriarty.
- 1912 Roald Amundsen announces his discovery of the South Pole.
- 1969 Golda Meir elected as the first female prime minister of Israel following Levi Eshkol's death.
- 1989 Iran broke off diplomatic relations with Britain over Salman Rushdie's novel Satanic Verses.
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