Check out below about Today in History India 7 May in Indian history or May 7 special day in India Looking for information about today special day in India? If yes, check out below On this Special day today 7 May in Indian history, falls the birthdays and death anniversaries of various well-known people of India You would also find out about events that happened that make it to the list of today special day in India
Today’s Historical Events on May 7
1849, 7th May: John Elliott Drinkwater Bethune started Calcutta Female School
1946, 7th May: Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) was founded
1955, 7th May: Air India launched the Mumbai-Tokyo flight
1998, 7th May: Mercedes-Benz acquires Chrysler for 40 billion, the largest industrial merger in history
2000, 7th May: Vladimir Putin became President of Russia
Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on May 7
1711: David Hume, a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, and essayist
1861: Rabindranath Tagore, an Indian polymath- poet, writer, composer, philosopher, and painter
1880: Pandurang Vaman Kane, an Indian Indologist and Sanskrit scholar
1892: Joseph Tito, a revolutionary and the first president of Yugoslavia
1912: Pannalal Patel, an Indian author
1909: Edwin Herbert Land, the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation
1912: Pannalal Patel, an Indian author known for his contributions to Gujarati literature
Death Anniversaries of famous people on May 7
1924: Alluri Seeta Rama Raju, an Indian revolutionary
1974: Basanti Devi, an Indian independence activist
1994: Ustad Nasir Zahiruddin Dagar, Indian Dhrupad singer
2001: Prem Dhawan, an Indian lyricist, music composer, choreographer, and actor
2002: Durga Bhagwat, an Indian scholar, socialist, and writer