August

31 days of Indian history

1 August
The Lok Sabha adopts Uttar Pradesh State Reorganisation Bil…
Kirti Vrajlal Ambani,Reliance executive, held in connection…
46
2 August
32 people died in a bomb explosion at Meenambakkam Airport.
The Supreme Court confirmed death sentence on Satwant Singh…
27
3 August
Maithili Sharan Gupta, first man of modern Hindi poetry and…
Sriprakash, freedom fighter, prolific writer and member of…
25
4 August
Gandhi is imprisoned for one year for breaking a restraint…
Pherozeshah Mehta, who published the first Hindi newspaper…
23
5 August
In the first case to be brought under Prohibition laws, a r…
Yakub Abdul Razak Memon, a key accused in 1993's Bombay bla…
21
6 August
SC asks Harshad Mehta to pay Rs. 217 crore to I.T. departme…
Chittaranjan Das "Desh Bandhu", freedom fighter and advocat…
23
7 August
Abanindranath Tagore, great modern artist and painter, was…
Pratham Chaudhary (Birbal), modern Bengali poet and critic,…
21
8 August
Floods on the Ganges and Jumna rivers cause loss of life in…
Dada Kondke, famous Marathi actor, was born.
21
9 August
Gulam Kadir removed the eyes of Shah Alam 2nd, King of Delh…
Government Treasury from Postal Train was looted near Kakur…
25
10 August
Manju Bala Patil was shot on the road at Mumbai by the Brit…
Delhi airport police foils an attempt by a Saudi national t…
29
11 August
First Hindu-Muslim riots in Maharashtra.
Hundreds travelling by Delhi-bound Rajdhani Express from Gu…
19
12 August
Abul Fazal, Akbar's minister, was killed on the instruction…
Parliament passes the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (…
19
13 August
Riots sweep Lahore in Punjab; mobs stone Gandhi's house.
Kashmiri separatists behead a kidnapped Norwegian tourist a…
22
14 August
A soldier in a guard of honor attacks Indian Prime Minister…
15 bus passengers massacred in J&K.
19
15 August
Karnataka seeks army help to nab sandal wood smuggler Veera…
Bhartendu Harishchandra publishes a Hindi monthly 'Kavi Vac…
43
16 August
A.Shankar was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of In…
Communal riots continue; death toll in Uttar Pradesh City h…
15
17 August
CBI seizes another Rs. 65 lakhs from Sukh Ram's residence.
I K Gujral, Prime Minister, said that Queen Elizabeth shoul…
20
18 August
Tilak Raj was appointed the Narcotics Commissioner of India…
12 LTTE militants commit suicide.
27
19 August
The first rupee coin was minted in Calcutta by the East Ind…
Earthquake measuring 7.7-8.9 on the Richter Scale hits Indi…
20
20 August
Sant Harchand Singh Longowal, a ragi, reluctant politician…
India's Ambassador to Romania J.F.Ribeiro shot by Sikh extr…
28
21 August
Badauni Abdul Kadir, famous Muslim historian, was born.
Jahangir Bemanji Petit, famous industrialist, was born.
17
22 August
Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, great painter, philosopher, li…
Shambhu Mishra, Bengali actor, director and playwright, was…
17
23 August
Former prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif said that Pakistan…
Tanguturi Prakasam, great lawyer, journalist, nationalist,…
13
24 August
Narmadashankar Lalshankar Dave 'Narmad', versatile author i…
Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher, Congress leader in Maharashtra an…
27
25 August
Ramdas Nayak, President of BJP Mumbai and former MLA was as…
Forest outlaw Veerappan seeks more time to decide on his su…
24
26 August
Bengali revolutionaries looted 46,000 bullet ammunition and…
An Indian Airlines Boeing with 68 passengers and a crew of…
15
27 August
Mother Teresa, [Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu], nobel Prize awardee…
Nemichandra Jain, stage critic, was born.
18
28 August
Election Commission orders that no convicted person will be…
Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon, noted physicist and sc…
19
29 August
Indian Airlines Boeing 737 with 68 passengers and a crew of…
India gets $ 360 million loan as food aid.
25
30 August
Aurangzeb plotted the death of his brother Dara Shikoh and…
Narayan Rao Peshwa was murdered by his uncle Raghunath Rao,…
14
31 August
Beant Singh (73), Punjab chief minister, assassinated in R.…
J & K police nab two Pakistani militants for the massacre o…
21