Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Madam Cama's Birth Anniversary


 

Bhikhaiji Rustom Cama, known as Madam Cama, born on 24 September 1861, in Navsari, Bombay Presidency, British India (present day Gujarat, India), was one of the prominent figures in the Independence movement. She unfurled one of the earliest versions of the flag of independent India on August 22, 1907 and she was the first person to hoist an Indian flag in a foreign nation, at the International Socialist Conference at Stuttgart, in Germany.

 

The official dedication of the Statue of Liberty in 1886

On 28 October 1886, the Statue of Liberty was officially dedicated in New York in New York Harbour by Stephen Grover Cleveland, president ...