04 AUGUST
1956 Apsara, the country’s first nuclear research reactor, started.
1967 Construction of Nagarjunasagar, the world’s longest masonry dam.
2008 The government gave Navratna status to the Shipping Corporation of India.

1929 Actor, singer, director Kishore Kumar was born.

05 AUGUST

1991 Justice Leela Seth became the first Indian woman to become the Chief Justice of the High Court.
1775 Nandakumar, an officer of the Bengal Nawab, was hanged in Calcutta (now Kolkata).
2008 A tremor of 5.5 magnitude earthquake was felt in the Indian Ocean 176 miles northeast of 2008 from Andaman and Nicobar island of India.
2010 A cloudburst occurred in Leh in Kashmir (India) in 2010 and 115 people died in the flood that followed.
2013 India’s junior women’s hockey team won the bronze by defeating England 3-2 (1-1) in the 2013 World Cup held in Germany.
2000 India’s great and famous cricketer Lala Amarnath died in 2000

2020 The foundation stone of the Ayodhya Ram temple was laid by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Das Modi on 05 November 2020.

06 AUGUST
1862 Madras High Court was established.
1906 Prominent freedom fighter Chittaranjan Das and other Congress leaders jointly started publication of ‘Vande Mataram’ newspaper.
1986 Birth of India’s first test tube baby.
2007 An old Hindu temple in central Trinidad was damaged.

07 AUGUST
1905 The Indian National Congress boycotted British goods.

1941 Nobel laureate Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore died.
1947 Electricity and transport system were formally transferred to Mumbai Municipal Corporation.
1985 Geet Sethi won the World Amateur Billiards Championship. He became the third Indian to achieve this feat.

08 AUGUST
1509 The coronation of Maharaj Krishnadeva Raya as Emperor of the Vijay Nagar Empire.

1942 Mahatma Gandhi started the Quit India Movement.
1967 For the first time since independence, the central government faced defeat in the Lok Sabha elections.
1921 Indian medical scientist Vulimiri Ramalingaswamy was born in 1921.

09 AUGUST
1942 Indian government Mahatma Gandhi was arrested by the British government.
1683 The British monarchy, through an order, gave the East India Company the right to declare war or peace in Asia.
1971 Signing of the Indo-Russian Friendship Treaty.
1942 Freedom fighter Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose established the Indian National Army in Malaya (now Malaysia) with the help of Japan.
1909 Kannada chief litterateur Vinayaka Krishna Gokak, who got the ‘Jnanpith Award’, was born on 9 August 1909.

1996 Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar was elected the captain of the Indian cricket team in 1996.
2012 In 2012, the Indian Army successfully tested the Agni-2 ballistic missile capable of carrying out nuclear strikes.

10 AUGUST
2012 In 2012, the Indian Army successfully tested the Agni-2 ballistic missile capable of carrying out nuclear strikes.
1860 Pandit Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, a scholar of classical music, was born.
1983 Phoolan Devi was born to reach the political corridors from the ravines of Chambal.
2010 India successfully tested Gagan, a satellite operating system based aircraft operation system.
2008 Anti-AIDS vaccine was successfully tested in a lab in Chennai.

1980 India’s first female musician Saraswati Devi died.
1977 Shyamlal Gupta, the author of the flag song ‘Vijay Vishwa Tiranga Pyara’, passed away.
2008 It was agreed to implement the 2005 order in an all-party delegation meeting to settle the Amarnath land.

1979 The satellite SLV-3 was launched in 1979.
1894 The fourth President of the country, VV Giri, was born on 1894.