August 13

1784: Pitt’s India Bill was introduced in the British Parliament for improvement of administration in India.

1795: Queen Ahilyabai Holkar died.

1891: The three great defenders of Manipur, Senapati Tikendrajit Singh, his brothers, Agnesh Sena and General Thangal were hanged by the British.

1936:         Famous Indian woman revolutionary Bhikaji Cama died.

1936: The famous Indian cinema actress Vyjayanthi Mala was born on 13 August 1936.

1951: Hindustan Trainer 2, the first aircraft manufactured in India, took its first flight.

1956:         The National Highway Bill was passed in the Lok Sabha.

1996: Women’s Reservation Bill which had been introduced in  was put on the back burner under Prime Minister I.K Gujral’s government.

2008:         Tata Steel, the world’s leading steel company, entered into an agreement with two major companies to jointly build a steel complex in Vietnam.

2008:         India successfully tested the multi-barrel rocket launcher (MBRL) weapon system Pinak.

August 14

1862:         Bombay High Court was established.

1924:         Birth of renowned writer and journalist Kuldeep Nayyar.

1947:         Partition of India, Pakistan became a separate nation.

1968:         Morarji Desai honored with Pakistan’s highest civilian honor, Nishan-e-Pakistan.

1956:         Indian comedian Johnny Lever was born.

August 15

1772:         The East India Company decided to set up separate civil and criminal courts in the districts.

1854:         East India Railway ran the first passenger train from Calcutta to Hooghly in a distance of 37 km. However, it was officially inaugurated in 1885.

1872:         Writer and litterateur Sri Aurobindo was born.

1947:         Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was sworn in as the first Prime Minister of independent India.

1950:         An earthquake of 8.6 magnitude killed 20 to 30 thousand people in India.

1972:         Postal index number ie PIN code is implemented.

1982:         The national program of nationwide color broadcasting and TV was inaugurated in Delhi.

1990:         The ground-to-air missile Akash was successfully launched.

August 16

1886:         Ram Krishna Paramahamsa Dev breathed his last at the Twilight Vela.

1946:         The Muslim League declared a direct action day, during which around 5000 people were killed and 15,000 were injured in Kolkata during the violence.

2018:         Former Prime Minister, poet Heart and the fiery speaker Atal Bihari Vajpayee died at the age of 93.

August 17

1909:         Madan Lal Dhingra was hanged in the Pentonvilli prison in connection with the murder of Vayali and Lalkaka.

1947:         After the independence of India, the first British troops left home.

1941:         Bimal Jalan, the 20th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, was born on 1941.

2011:         Lokpal movement: Anna Hazare continued his fast in Tihar, despite his release in 2011, till he got written permission to continue his fast in JP Park.

2009:         On the issue of internal security, the one-day conference of all the Chief Ministers of the country was held in New Delhi on 2009 under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

August 18

1227:         Genghis Khan, ruler of the Mongol Empire, died in 1227.

1700:         Bajirao I, the great general of the Maratha Empire, was born on 1700.

1800:         Governor General Lord Vallejali established Fort William College in Calcutta.

1872:         Birth of Pandit Vishnu Digambar, the great musician of Maharashtra. Despite being blind, he achieved memorable achievements in the field of music.

1900:         Vijayalakshmi Pandit, sister of former Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, was born.

1934:         The film director, lyricist and poet Gulzar was born.

1940:         For the first time, the weather map was broadcast on television.

1945:         The great freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose was badly injured in a plane crash in Taihoku, Taiwan, later died in a military hospital.

1951:         Indian Institute of Technology was established in Kharagpur.

1956:         Indian cricketer Sandeep Patil was born in Mumbai. He scored 1588 runs in 29 Test matches.

2008:         The Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh announced the implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations in 2008.

2010:         In 2010, TVS Electronics included a rupee symbol just above the tab in its new key board called ‘TVS Gold Bharat’.

August 19

1600:         Mughal Emperor Akbar captured Ahmednagar.

1666:         Shivaji escaped from Aurangzeb’s captivity by hiding in a fruit basket in Agra.

1757:         The first one rupee coin of the East India Company was made in the Calcutta mint.

1907:         Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, essayist, novelist, critic, thinker and researcher was born in 1907.

1918:         Birth of Dr. Shankardayal Sharma, 9th President of India.

1939:         Guruvar Ravindra Nath Tagore laid the foundation stone of Subhash Chandra Bose Mahajati Sadan in Calcutta in 1939.

1964:         The communication satellite Cincom 3 was launched.

1949:         Bhubaneshwar became the capital of Odisha.

1999:         Angered by India’s draft nuclear policy, the G8 announced a ban on all kinds of aid.