Year 1737
A cyclone causes 40-foot waves that were believed to have killed 300,000 in Calcutta, India.
OCTOBER 7
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7 October: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 7 October.
Year 1950
Mother Teresa Founded the Missionaries of Charity.
Born 1907
Durgavati Devi was an Indian revolutionary and a freedom fighter.
Born 1922
Bali Ram Bhagat was an Indian politician and member of the Indian National Congress.
Born 1929
T. K. Rama Rao was a novelist of Kannada literature.
Born 1914
Begum Akhtar, Indian actress (d. 1974)
Born 1956
Sunil Shanbag, Indian theatre director, screenwriter and documentary film-maker.
Born 1966
Dr. Ishari K Ganesh, founder, chairman and Chancellor of Vels University in Chennai, India.
Born 1970
Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande, Hindustani classical music vocalist from Mumbai.
Born 1976
Sharad Kelkar, Indian actor, who appears in Marathi and Hindi films.
Born 1976
Amal Neerad, Indian film director, cinematographer and producer.
Born 1977
Yukta Mookhey, Indian actress, model and beauty pageant title holder.
Born 1978
Zaheer Khan, Indian former cricketer who played all forms of the game for the Indian national team from 2000 till 2014.
Born 1981
Abhijeet Sawant, Indian singer, television actor, anchor and the winner of Indian Idol.
Born 1983
Pooja Gandhi, Indian actress and producer who mainly works in Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, Bengali and Hindi films.
Born 1991
Lopamudra Raut, Indian model, beauty queen and actress from Maharashtra.
Died 1708
Guru Gobind Singh, Indian 10th Sikh guru (b. 1666)
Died 1971
Koyapalli Kelappan Nair was a founding member and president of the Nair Service Society, a reformer, an Indian freedom fighter, educationist and journalist.
Died 1992
Babu Karam Singh Bal, Indian businessman and politician (b.1927)