7 August in Hindu history
7 August 1905
7 August 1941Swadeshi movement launched in Calcutta
A meeting at Calcutta Town Hall resolves to boycott British goods against the planned partition of Bengal. The day is National Handloom Day.
Rabindranath Tagore dies at Jorasanko
Gurudev Tagore dies in the house where he was born. Bengal marks the day by the calendar, on Baishe Srabon.