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Historical Event on 8/7/1925
Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986.

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8/7/1925	Acharya Surdasji, famous poet in Hindi and great devotee of Lord Krishna, was born.
9/11/1921	Subramania Bharati, freedom fighter, Tamil poet and editor, passed away at an early age of 39.
12/23/1902	Chaudhary Charan Singh was born at Noopur village in Hapur Tehsil near Meerut. He was a freedom fighter and had done many deeds for upliftment of Agriculture in India. He was the Prime Minister of India from July 1979 to January 1980.
4/18/1959	India, Pakistan sign one-year pact on Indus River irrigation.
1/18/1995	The 4-nation non-official initiative on Arms Reduction and Disarmament concludes with Goa Declaration (also called Shanghai-II).
1/18/1995	Sultan Mehmud of Ghazni began his first real expedition to India by defeating the Hindu King Jaipal. He won Afghanisthan and Punjab in Peshawar battle. This was the first major Muslim conquest in India.
1/1/1965	This year was announced to be observed as the ""Year of International Co-operation"".
11/19/1992	M. Veerappa Moily selected to become the new CM of Karnataka.
6/29/1993	24 jawans were killed in ambush by NSCN militants in Manipur.
12/12/1991	Violence in Karnataka over the centre's notification on Cauvery.

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