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December 27, 1911
On December 27, 1911, "Jana Gana Mana", the national anthem of India, is first sung in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress.
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Featured · December 27, 1911
"Jana Gana Mana", the national anthem of India, is first sung in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress.
"Jana Gana Mana" is the national anthem of the Republic of India. It was originally composed as "Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata" in Bengali written by polymath, activist and country's first Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore on 11 December 1911. The first stanza of the song "Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata", originally composed as a Hindu religious hymn for the Brahmo Samaj, was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India as the National Anthem on 24 January 1950.
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1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1911th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 911th year of the 2nd millennium, the 11th year of the 20th…
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On December 27, 1911
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1911 "Jana Gana Mana", the national anthem of India, is first sung in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress. National anthem of India
"Jana Gana Mana" is the national anthem of the Republic of India. It was originally composed as "Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata" in Bengali written by polymath, activist and country's first Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore on 11 December 1911. The first stanza of the song "Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata", originally composed as a Hindu religious hymn for the Brahmo Samaj, was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India as the National Anthem on 24 January 1950.
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- April 2 The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.
- April 27 The Second Canton Uprising takes place in Guangzhou, Qing China, but is suppressed.
- April 29 Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.
- April 6 During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skanderbeg).
- August 1 Harriet Quimby takes her pilot's test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's certificate.
- August 21 The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre employee.
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