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7 August

🇮🇳 In India

1905 The Indian National Congress boycotted British goods.

1925 M. S. Swaminathan, Indian geneticist and administrator, known for his role in India's Green Revolution, was born in Kumbakonam, India.

1941 Nobel laureate Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore passed away at 80.

1947 The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).

1985 Geet Sethi won the World Amateur Billiards Championship. He became the third Indian to achieve this feat.

🌎 Elsewhere

1606 Possible first performance of Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth, performed in the Great Hall at Hampton Court Palace for King James I.

1934 In Washington, the U.S. Court of Appeals rules that the government can neither confiscate nor ban James Joyce's novel Ulysses.

1957 Oliver Hardy—member of Laurel and Hardy, the first great Hollywood motion-picture comedy team—died in North Hollywood, California.

1971 Apollo 15 returns to Earth. The mission to the moon had marked the first use of the Lunar Roving Vehicle.

1981 The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.

1990 US deploys troops to Saudi Arabia, beginning Operation Desert Shield to discourage Iraq's Saddam Hussein from invading that country as he had Kuwait.

2007 Eclipse 3rd book in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga is published by Little Brown. Initial print run 1 million copies.

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