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7 February

🇮🇳 In India
1898 Ramabai Ambedkar, wife of Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar, was born.
1908 Manmath Nath Gupta, revolutionary writer and author of autobiographical, historical and fictional books in Hindi, English and Bengali, was born. He joined the Indian independence movement at the age of 13 and was an active member of the Hindustan Republican Association.
1942 Sachindra Nath Sanyal, revolutionary and a founder of the Hindustan Republican Association that was created to carry out armed resistance against the British Empire in India, died. He was a mentor for revolutionaries like Chandrashekhar Azad and Bhagat Singh.
1964 Ashok Kumar Banker, author and screenwriter, was born. His writing spans crime thrillers, essays, literary criticism, fiction and mythological retellings.
1987 Durjoy Datta, author and screenwriter known for his coffee-table novels about the romantic life of young Indians, was born.
🌎 Elsewhere
1477 English humanist and statesman Sir Thomas More was born in London. He is famous for Utopia, socio-political satire. He was later executed for refusing to accept Henry VIII as the head of the church.
1812
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens, English writer and social critic, was born in Portsmouth, England. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.
1836 Charles Dickens's Sketches by Boz, collection of his essays was published.
1885 Sinclair Lewis, American novelist and social critic who in 1930 became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, was born.
1971 Women in Switzerland were finally granted suffrage.
1987 Police in South Korea make hundreds of arrests during protest demonstrations, the country's biggest for 6 years, after a student died in custody.
1990 Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agreed to give up its monopoly on power and allow other parties to compete for power.
2005 Britain's Ellen MacArthur becomes the fastest person to sail solo around the world. Her time of 71 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes 33 seconds beat Francis Joyon's then world record time by 1 day, 8 hours, 35 minutes and 49 seconds. In 2008, Joyon recovered his record.
⭐ Significance
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