1824 : Freed American slaves established Liberia on the West African cost through the American colonization society.
1862 : Madras high court was established.
1945 : Korea gained independence from the Empire of Japan.
1947 : India gained independence from British rule after near 190 years of British East India Company and Crown Rule. And Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru became the first Prime Minister of independent India.
1947 : Mohammad Ali Jina became the first Governor-General of Pakistan.
1960 : Congo gained independence from France.
1969 : Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) formed under the Department of Atomic Energy.
1971 : Bangladesh gained independence from Pakistan. And Shaik Mujib Rehman became the first Prime Minister.
1982 : Color Television Broadcasting started in India.
2020 : Indian Cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni announced his retirement from international cricket.
Famous Birthdays – August 15
1769 : Napolean Bonaparte, Emperor of France.
1865 : Mikao Usni, Japanese spiritual leader. He founded Reiki.
1872 : Shri Aurobindo, Indian novelist, freedom fighter, philosopher, guru, and poet.
1893 : France became the first country to introduce Motor Vehicle Registration.
1945 : Japan surrendered in World War II.
1947 : Pakistan was given independence from the British Raj, formally ending the rule of the British India Company.
1947 : Harilal Jekisundas Kania Appointed as the Chief Justice of India, succeeding Patrick Spence. And Lord Mountbatten became the first Governor-General of India.
1962 : Bombay high court and Calcutta high court were established in India.
1973 : The Pakistan constitution of 1973 came into effect.
1980 : Centre nationalized Maruti company.
1986 : Benazir Bhutto was jailed by Pakistani dictator Zia.
1987 : Bharat Ratna which is the highest civilian award in India, was conferred to Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan.He was the first non Indian to receive the award.
2006 : Pluto officially lost its status as Planet.
Famous Birthdays – August 14
1777 : Hans Christian Oersted , Danish physicist and chemist. He discovered the electric current creates magnetic field, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism.
1883 : Ernest Everett Just, a pioneering African-American biologist, academic and science writer.
1957 : Johnny Lever, Indian film actor. He is the most noted comedian in Hindi cinema.
1962 : Rameez Raza, Pakistani cricketer and sportcaster.
1966 : Halley Berry, American actress. She was the first African American female to win the best actess Oscar for her role in Monster’s Ball.
1983 : Sunidhi Chauhan, Indian playback singer.
1983 : Mila Cunis, American actress.
Death Anniversaries –August 14
1922 : Lord Nightcliffe, founder of Daily Mail and Daily Mirror newspaper.
1951 : William Randolph Heast, King of American Yellow Press.
1958 : Fredric Joliot Curie, French physicist. Awarded Nobel prize in chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of Artificial Radioactivity.
1984 : Khashaba Jadhav, first Indian wrestler to get medal in Olympic games.
1988 : Enzo Ferrari, Italian race car driver and founder of Ferrari.
2011 : Shammi Kapoor, Indian film actor.
2012 : Vilasrao Deshmukh, Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Maharashtra state.
1898 : Carl Gustave Vit discovered 433 Eros Asteroid near Earth.
1913 : First production of Stainless Steel in the United Kingdom by Harry Brearly.
1954 : Radio Pakistan broadcasted the ‘Qaumi Tarana’, the national anthem of Pakistan for the first time.
1960 : Central African Republic declared its independence from France.
1961 : Wall of Berlin started building.]
Famous Birthdays – August 13
1848 : Ramesh Chander Dutt. He was a historian, economist, writer, translator, civil servant, and politician from India.
1888 : John Logie Baird, a Scottish engineer who invented Television.
1890 : Tryambak Bapuji Thombre, an Indian Marathi poet.
1898 : Acharya Atre, Indian writer, politician, editor, film producer, and poet.
1899 : Alfred Hitchcock, British Filmmaker. English director who moved to Hollywood and directed such classics as Psycho and The Birds.
1926 : Fidel Alexandro Castro (American Spanish) was a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician. He governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then President from 1976 to 2008.
1936 : Vyjayanti mala Bali, Indian actress, and Politician.
1963 : Shridevi, Indian actress. She was known as the female superstar of Indian cinema.
1975 : Shoaib Akhtar, Pakistani cricketer.
1983 : Sandip Chandra, 9th Grand-master.
Death Anniversaries –August 13
1795 : Ahilyabai Holkar, the hereditary noble sardar of the Maratha Empire, India.
1826 : Rene Laennec, French physician. The inventor of Stethoscope.
1910 : Nurse Florence Nightingale, ‘the Lady with the Lamp’. During the Crimean war, she transformed the appalling conditions in military hospitals and founded the Nursing profession.
1936 : Madam Bhikaji Rustum Kama, Indian revolutionary.
1946 : H. G. Wells, author of Time Machine and The shape of things to come. Sometimes called Father of science fiction.
1988 : Gajanan Jagirdar, the first director of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII).
2000 : Nazia Hussein, Pakistani pop singer.
2015 : Om Prakash Manjal, Founder of Hero Company of the bicycle.
1851: Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.
1865 : During an operation at Glasgow Royal infantry today British surgeon Josef Lister, 38, demonstrated a method of preventing infection of an operation wound.
1883 : The last of the Quaggas died in Amsterdam zoo. Quaggas is the species of Zebra.
1948 : India won gold medal in hockey in London Olympics.
1952 : 13 prominent Jewish intellectuals and poets were murdered in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union.
1960 : Communication satellite Echo is launched at Cape Canaveral.
1981 : The IBM personal computer released.
1990 : Sue which is the longest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton found to date. Discovered by Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota.
1998 : Rajiv Gandhi Khelaratna Award, which is the highest award in sports in India, declared to Sachin Tendulkar.
Famous Birthdays – August 12
1887 : Erwin Schrodinger, an Australian physicist born. Noble prize winner who developed a number of fundamental results in the field of Quantum theory. Schrodinger equation provides a way to calculate the wave function of the system and how it changes dynamically in time.
1918 : First CO of the Royal Air forces 617 squadrons. He was born in Shimla, India.
1919 : Vikram Sarabhai, an Indian socialist and physicist. He invented space researches and helped to developed nuclear power in India. He is also known as the father of the Indian Space Programme.
1924: Mohammad Zia ul Haq, 6th president of Pakistan. He was the longest-reigning president of Pakistan from 1978 to 1988.
1948 : Siddaramaiah, 22nd Chief Minister of Karnataka, India.
1952 : Sitaram Yechuri, Indian Politician. He is the leader of communist party (Marxist).
1988 : Tyson Fury, a British boxer.
1995 : Sara Ali Khan, Indian Actress. Daughter of Saif Ali khan.
Death Anniversaries - August 12
1827 : William Blake, British artist and poet. He influenced the visual art of romantic age.
1848 : George Stephenson, Who invented the steam locomotive ‘Rocket’.
1964 : Ian Fleming, the man who created secrete agent James Bond 007. Died of a heart attack.
1973 : Bhausaheb Bandodkar, the first Chief Minister of Goa, Daman and Diu.
1997 : Gulshan Kumar, Founder of T-series. He was a music director and Bollywood film producer. Assassinated by Mumbai underworld.
2005 : Kadir Magar, Shri lankan politician. Assassinated by militants.
1877 : American astronomic Asaph Hall discovered two moons. And named them Phobos and Deimos of Planet Mars.
1942 : Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil received a patent for a frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system. That later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.
1943 : C.D. Deshmukh became the first Governor of Reserve Bank of India.
1952 : Crown Prince Hussein of Jordan was named successor to his schizophrenic father King Talal.
1961: Former Portuguese territories Dadra and Nagar Haveli merged into India as Union Territories.
1962 : Chad became independent from France.
1965 : Violent race riots began in Watts area of Los Angeles.
2004 : The first license for the cloning of human embryos issued in the United Kingdom.
2008 : Indian Shooter Abhinav Bindra won the gold medal for the men’s 10m Air Rifle final. ( Beijing Olympic).
2013 : Janata Party lead by Dr. Subhramanyam Swami merged into Bhartiya Janata Party.
Famous Birthdays – August 11
1928 : Ramashreya Jha, a distinguished composer, musician, scholar and teacher of Hindustani Classical music.
1943 : Parvez Musharraf. Pakistani General, and Politician. He served as the 10th president of Pakistan.
1950 : Steve Wozniak. American computer scientist, and programmer. co-founded Inc.
1954 : Yashpal Sharma, Indian cricketer and Umpire.
1961 : Sunil Shetty, Indian Actor.
1983 : Chris Hemsworth. Australian actor. Best known for his role as Thor in Avenger movie.
