🎂 Poet Rabindranath Tagore is born (1861)
Where: Jorasanko, Kolkata, India
📅 On This Day: May 7
May 7, 1861: Poet Rabindranath Tagore is born. Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore was born on this day in 1861 at the Jorasanko house in Kolkata. He wrote poems and songs and also painted, and he was the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. The national anthems of both India and Bangladesh are his songs.
✨ More events on this day
- 1824 🎨 Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, with its famous "Ode to Joy," was performed for the first time in Vienna, even though Beethoven was by then almost completely deaf.
- 1895 💡 Russian scientist Alexander Popov showed his radio receiver to fellow scientists in Saint Petersburg; Russia still celebrates this date as Radio Day.
- 1986 🧭 Canadian climber Patrick Morrow became the first person to climb the Seven Summits, the highest mountain on every one of the seven continents.
🧠 Question of the day
What prize was Tagore the first Asian to win?
- An Academy Award
- An Olympic gold medal
- The Nobel Prize in Literature
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Answer: The Nobel Prize in Literature
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What happened on May 7?
May 7, 1861: Poet Rabindranath Tagore is born. It happened in Jorasanko, Kolkata, India.
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