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Crossroads
1-August-1947
Partition of India into India and Pakistan. Power transferred. Lord Mountbatten becomes Governor General of India and Muhammed Ali Jinnah, Governor General of Pakistan.
2-August-1858
Government of India transferred from East India Company to Crown
3-August-1984
Bomb attack on Madras India airport, 32 killed
4- August- 1929
Popular Bollywood actor and playback singer Kishore Kumar was born.
5-August-1100
Henry I is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.
6- August-1945
World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb “Little Boy” is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay.
7-August-1906
First Tricoloured National Flag consisting of Green, Yellow and Red, with eight Lotuses on the top, second strip carrying “”Vande Matara”” in Devnagri and the third strip having Sun and Cresent Moon, was hoisted at Green Park in Calcutta by Surendranath Banerjee.
8- August- 1942
Quit India Movement
09-August 1942
Mahatma Gandhi & 50 others arrested in Bombay after passing of the “Quit India” campaign by the All-India Congress10-August 1985
Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (every Beatle song) for $47 million
11-August 1988
Al-Qaeda formed
12-August 1965
Elizabeth Lane becomes 1st female British Supreme court justice
13-August-1784
English parliament accept India Act
14- August 1947
Pakistan gains independence from Britain
India gains Independence
16-August 2008
Usain Bolt sets a new 100 metres dash world record of 9.69 seconds at the Beijing 2008 summer olympics.
17-August-1947
The Radcliffe Line, the border between Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed.
18-August 1958
Brojen Das from Bangladesh swims across the English Channel in a competition, as the first Bengali as well as the first Asian to ever do it. He became first among 39 competitors.
15 -August 194719-August-1944
Last Japanese troops driven out of India
20-August 1944
Rajiv Gandhi, PM of India (1984-89) is born
21-August 2006
Bismillah Khan, Indian shehnai player (b. 1916) dies
22-August 1639
Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.
23-August 1990
Tim Berners-Lee opens the WWW - World Wide Web to new users.
24-August-1608
1st English convoy lands at Surat India
25-August 1609
Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
26-August 1910
Mother Teresa, Macedonian-Indian missionary, Nobel Prize laureate is born
27-August 2006
Celebrated Hindi film maker Hrishikesh Mukherjee passes away in Mumbai.
28-August 1973
India & Pakistan sign POW accord
29- August 1905
Field hockey champion Dhyan Chand is born in Allahabad
30-August-1928
Jawaharlal Nehru requests independence of India
31-August 1997
Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris
