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30 November
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Battle of Swally
Battle of Swally: Forces of the British East India Company and Portugal engage off the coast of India, resulting in a British victory.
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Physicist and plant physiologist Jagadish Chandra Bose was born on 30 November 1858 in Mymensingh; he later became a pioneer of experimental science in India.
Jagadish Chandra Bose: The Scientist Who Refused to Patent His Radio Work
The Jagadish Chandra Bose biography reveals a man who proved that plants feel pain and pioneered wireless communication years before Marconi, forever changing the world of science.
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Indian mountaineer.
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