On this day:
1960: Ivory Coast Independence from France
2008: War Between Russia and Georgia breaks out
Born on this day:
1925: M. S. Swaminathan, Indian scientist, born in Kumbakonam
Gone on this day:
1941: Rabindranath Tagore, philosopher, poet, writer, Nobel Prize for Literature 1913
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