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7 May

🇮🇳 In India

1861 Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter, was born. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.

1880 Pandurang Vaman Kane, notable Indologist and Sanskrit scholar, was born. He received India's highest civilian award Bharat Ratna in 1963 for his scholarly work that spanned more than 40 years of active academic research that resulted in 6,500 pages of History of Dharmaśāstra.

1907 The first electric tramcar became operational in Bombay Presidency.

1912 Pannalal Patel, author known for his contributions in Gujarati literature, was born.

1960 Border Roads Organisation (BRO) was formed to maintain and develop the Indian remote areas of north and northeast situated near the borders.

🌎 Elsewhere

1812 Robert Browning, English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets, was born in London.

1945 Germany's Nazi regime surrendered unconditionally, ending World War II in Europe. According to estimates, between 40 and 71 million people died in the war and the Holocaust initiated by Adolf Hitler's regime.

2000 Vladimir Putin, former KGB officer, became President of Russia. Internationally, he has been criticized for his authoritarian style of government.

⭐ Significance

World Athletics Day was introduced in 1996 by the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF). It was launched as a social responsibility project 'Athletic for a better world'.

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