August 20
1597: Dutch East India Company’s first ship returned from East Asia.
1828: The first session of Raja Ram Mohan Roy’s Brahmo Samaj was held in Calcutta (now Kolkata).
1921: Start of Mopala Rebellion in Malabar, Kerala.
1944: Former Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi was born.
1979: Prime Minister Chaudhary Charan Singh resigned from his post.
1988: A magnitude 6.5 earthquake in India and Nepal killed a thousand people.
2011: India’s famous historian Ram Sharan Sharma died.
August 21
1790: The British army, led by General Meadows, captured Dindigul in Tamil Nadu.
1931: Pandit Vishnu Digambar died.
1972: The Wildlife Protection Act was passed in India.
1988: One thousand people died due to the severe earthquake that hit the Indo-Nepal border.
2005: The ceasefire agreement between Bangladesh and India’s Border Security Force concluded.
2006: Renowned Shehnai player Ustad Bismillah Khan passed away with Bharat Ratna.
2008: In 2008, India joined hands with NASA on the Moon mission.
2009: The Indian Navy’s fighter aircraft ‘Sea Harrier’ crashed in the Arabian Sea after flying from Goa in 2009. Commander Saurabh Saxena died.
August 22
1639: The British East India Company established Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu (erstwhile Madras).
1818: Warren Hasting, the first Governor General of India, died.
1918: India’s first proficient pilot Indralal Rai was killed in an air battle with Germany in London during the First World War.
1921: Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi lit Holi of foreign clothes.
2012: Pranab Mukherjee was elected the 13th President of India.
August 23
1944: The famous heroine of Indian films Saira Banu was born.
1947: Vallabhbhai Patel was appointed as the Deputy Prime Minister of the country.
1986: Bombay’s Shambhu Apashane won the longest typing marathon by winning a world record.
1995: The country’s first cellular phone was commercially introduced in Calcutta.
2011: Scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences discovered the origin of the Brahmaputra and Indus rivers and completed a comprehensive satellite study of the length of their route.
1960: The world’s largest frog (3.3 kg) was caught.
2008: The Government of Uttar Pradesh nominated 16 members in the State Women’s Commission in 2008
August 24
1908: The revolutionary Rajguru was born.
1600: The first ship of the East India Company, Hector, reached the coast of Surat.
1690: Calcutta city was established.
1969: VV Giri became the fourth President of India.
1974: Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed became the fifth President of India.
1999: Pakistan refused to consider the 8 prisoners of war captured by India during the Kargil operation as a prisoner of war.
1910: ITC Limited bought the third largest tobacco company in Kolkata, India.
1925: Social reformer Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar died.
1971: India beat England by four wickets in the Oval Cricket Test match to register their first win on the ground.
August 25
1351: Sultan Ferozeshah Tughlaq III was crowned.
1917: In 1917, 7 Indians serving in the British India Army received the Kigs Commission for the first time.
1957: India won the title of world winner by winning the final of the Polo World Championship in France.
2003: The 2003 car bombings near Mumbai’s Gateway of India and Mumbi Devi Temple killed more than 50 people and injured more than 150.
2008: The Government of Madhya Pradesh in 2008 requested to insure all students of government schools for the year 2008-09.
August 26
1303: Alauddin Khilji captured Chittorgarh after defeating Rana Bhim Singh.
1910: Nobel Peace Prize-awarded Mother Teresa was born in Skopji, Yugoslavia.
1914: Bengal revolutionaries attacked the British fleet in Calcutta and looted 50 mausers and 46 thousand rounds.
1975: Dr. Narayan Subbarao Hardikar, a freedom fighter, journalist and Padma Bhushan, died.