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Historical Event on 8/22/1877
Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, great painter, philosopher, linguist, critic, art researcher in the East, was born at Colombo in Sri Lanka.
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| 7/1/1952 | Olympic Games open at Helsinki. |
| 6/16/1950 | Mithun Chakravorty, famous Hindi film actor, was born. |
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