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8 December
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Benoy, Badal and Dinesh attack Writers' Building in Calcutta
Benoy Bose, Badal Gupta and Dinesh Gupta entered Writers' Building in Calcutta on 8 December 1930 and attacked colonial prison official N. S. Simpson as part of the revolutionary movement.
This date is in the wider Indian-history calendar but does not yet have a dedicated Curious Indian article.