August....
August 1: 1916 Annie Besant started the Home Rule League.August 1:1920 Bal Gangadhar
Tilak expired.August 1:1920 Gandhiji’s
Non-cooperation Movement formally started.
August 5:2019 Formation of new
union territories Jammu&Kashmir and Ladakh.August 6:1986 India’s first test-tube baby was born.
August 7:1941 Rabindranath Tagore breathed his last.
August 9: 1942 Quit India Movement started on Gandhiji’s ‘Do or Die’
call in Bombay.
August 14:1947 India was partitioned into India and Pakistan.
August 15: Independence day
August 15:1854 East Railway ran
its first passenger train from Calcutta to Hooghly, a distance of 37 km. But it
was officially inaugurated in 1855.August 15:1872 Sri Aurobindo was born. August 15:1972 PIN code was introduced.August 15:1982 Nationwide colour telecasting and national programme of
TV was inaugurated at Delhi.
August 16:1886 Ramakrishna Paramahansa Dev expired.August 16:2018 Atal Bihari Vajpayee expired.
August 18:1945 Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was reported to be seriously
injured in a plane crash in Taiwan and probably expired between 8 and 9 pm in
the nearby Japanese military hospital.August 18:1951 IIT Kharagpur was opened.
August 19:1666 Shivaji escaped in a fruit basket from Aurangzeb’s
internment in Agra.August 20:1944 Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was born.
August 21: 1790 Dindigul was
captured by British army in the Second war of Mysore.
August 23:
August 21: 1947 Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was appointed Deputy Prime
Minister of India.
August 21:1995 In India, the first cellular phone was commercially
introduced in Calcutta.
August 24:1600 The first ship of the East India Company (Hector-500
tonnes) touched Surat.
August 26: 1910 Mother Teresa was born in Yugoslavia.
August 27:1604 Adi Granth Sahib was installed in the Golden Temple of
Amritsar.
August 29: National sports Day
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