Historical Event on August 01

Remembrance on August 01:

International Event:

1291 - Everlasting League formed the basis of the Swiss Confederation.

1732 - Foundation laid for Bank of England.

1774 - Priestly discovered oxygen.

1785 - Caroline Herschel became the first woman discoverer of a comet.

1790 - First population census was taken in the USA.

1793 - France became the first country to use the metric system.

1842 - Rotherhithe Thames Tunnel opened.

1852 - San Francisco Methodists established the first black church.

1861 - Brazil recognized Confederacy.

1867 - Blacks vote for the first time in a state election in South.

1873 - San Francisco's first cable car started service.

1876 - Colorado became the 38th state in the USA.

1883 - Inland postal service started in Great Britain.

1907 - Signal Corps of U.S. Army started aircraft division.

1907 - First branch of Bank of Italy opened in San Francisco.

1916 - Hawaii National Park formed.

1919 - Queen Wilhelmina opened the first Air Fair in Amsterdam.

1943 - Burma got independence from Japan.

1946 - President Truman established the Atomic Energy Commission.

1953 - California introduced sales tax for education.

1955 - First microgravity research started.

1960 - Benin got independence from France.

National Event:

1672 - East India Company and the English law was for the first time introduced in India.

1916 - Home Rule League Movement started.

1920 - Kirloskar's monthly magazine was published.

1957 - National Book Trust inaugurated.

1958 - Ramon Magsaysay Award for community leadership given to Acharya Bhave.

1970 - Bhopal University was established.

Days Observed on August 01:

Armed Forces Day - Lebanon and China

National Day - Benin and Switzerland

Parents' Day - Democratic Republic of the Congo

Historical Event on July 31

Remembrance on July 31:

International Event:

1498 - Christopher Columbus discovered the Island of Trinidad.

1774 - Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen.

1809 - First practical U.S. railroad track in Philadelphia.

1876 - U.S. Coast Guard officer's training school established in New Bedford.

1914 - Oil discovered in Lake of Maracaibo.

1925 - Unemployment Insurance Act passed in England.

1959 - First exhibit of bongos at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opened.

1962 - Federation of Malaysia formed.

1976 - Seychelles Independence Day.

1981 - Arnette Hubbard appointed as first woman president of the National Bar Association.

1990 - Bosnia-Hercegovina declared independence.

National Event:

1658 - Aurangzeb appointed himself the Mongol emperor.

1861 - 9300 mm rainfall in July in Cherrapunji becomes a world record.

1948 - State Transport Corporation was established in Calcutta.

1992 - Sitar maestro Pt. Ravishankar won the Magsaysay Award.

Days Observed on July 31:

Warriors Day - Malaysia

Treasury Day - Poland

Historical Event on July 30

Remembrance on July 30:

International Event:

1729 - City of Baltimore founded.

1836 - First English newspaper published in Hawaii.

1844 - First U.S. yacht club organized in New York Yacht Club.

1909 - First military plane to the army delivered by Wright Brothers.

1928 - First color motion pictures are shown by George Eastman.

1935 - First Penguin book is published.

1946 - First rocket attains 100 miles (167 km) altitude: White Sands New Mexico

1963 - British spy Kim Philby founded in Moscow.

1971 - George Harrison released "Bangladesh".

1980 - Vanuatu (New Hebrides) got independence from Britain and France.

2013 - The Pakistani electorate vote for Mamnoon Hussain as the country's 12th President.

National Event:

1957 - Export Risk Insurance Corporation of India was established.

1995 - Notification issued for the constitution of the Jharkhand Autonomous District Council.

Days Observed on July 30:

Independence Day - Vanuatu

International Friendship Day - Globally

Historical Event on July 29

Remembrance on July 29:

International Event:

1585 - Friese Academy opened

1655 - Biggest town hall in the world opened in Amsterdam

1844 - New York Yacht Club formed

1858 - U.S. citizens allowed to live anywhere in Japan

1858 - First commercial treaty between U.S. and Japan signed

1899 - Southern California Golf Association formed

1899 - First motorcycle race held in Manhattan Beach

1902 - Union of Orthodox Rabbis of U.S. and Canada formed

1914 - First transcontinental phone link made between New York City and SF

1920 - First transcontinental airmail flight from New York to SF

1938 - Olympic National Park formed

1949 - BBC radio begins broadcasting

1952 - First nonstop transpacific flight by a jet

1957 - International Atomic Energy Agency formed by U.N.

1958 - President Eisenhower signed the NASA and Space Act of 1958.

1959 - First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.

1974 - France performed a nuclear Test at Muruora Island.

National Event:

1876 - Indian Science Congress Association was established in Bowbazar Street of Calcutta.

1911 - Mohan Bagan became the first Indian football team to win the I.F.A. Shield.

1980 - India won Gold Medal in Hockey at Moscow Olympics.

1983 - First Pilot-less Aeroplane of India was tested successfully by the Aeronautical Development Establishment.

Days Observed on July 29:

Name of the Day - Observed Country/Organization 

International Tiger Day - Globally

National Anthem Day - Romania

Historical Event on July 28

Remembrance on July 28:

International Event:

1586, Sir Thomas Harriot introduced potatoes to Europe.

1741, Captain Bering discovered Mount St. Elias in Alaska.

1821, Peru got independence from Spain.

1851, Total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph.

1866, Metric system became a legal measurement system in the U.S.

1866,  Vinnie Ream became the first and youngest female artist to receive a commission from the United States government for a statue

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1896, City of Miami incorporated.

1914, World War I began when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia.

1928, 9th Olympic Games opened in Amsterdam.

1933, Spain recognized the U.S.S.R.

1933, First singing telegram delivered in New York.

1959, Great Britain started using postal codes.

1962, Mariner I launched to Mars falls into the Atlantic Ocean.

1983, NASA launched Telstar-3A.

1984, 23rd modern Olympic Games opened in Los Angeles.

2001, Australian Ian Thorpe became the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championship.

2015, Barack Obama became the first U.S. president to address the African Union.

Days Observed on July 28:

World Hepatitis Day, Globally

World Nature Conservation Day, Globally

 

International  Liberation Day, San Marino

Historical Event on July 27

Remembrance on July 27:

International Event:

1586 - Sir Walter Raleigh bought the first tobacco to England from Virginia.

1661 - Parliament confirmed the Navigation Act.

1663 - English parliament accepted the Staple Act.

1789 - Congress establishes the Department of Foreign Affairs State Department.

1836 - Adelaide in South Australia founded.

1866 - First permanent transatlantic telegraph cable is successfully completed.

1920 - Radio compass used for the first time for aircraft navigation.

1921 - The Second government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck formed.

1922 - International Geographical Union formed in Brussels.

1934 - French socialist/communist party of the People's Front formed.

1944 - First British jet fighter used in combat Gloster Meteor.

1945 - U.S. Communist Party formed.

1953 - First insulin isolated by F Banting and C Best in Toronto.

1982 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's first visit to the U.S.

2011 - The U.K. government recognized the National Transitional Council.

National Event:

1889 - Branch of Indian National Congress "British India Committee" was established.

1986 - Supreme Court announced an all-India test for medical seats.

2015 - Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam died in Shillong.

Days Observed on July 27:

National Sleepy Head Day - Finland

Historical Event on July 26

Remembrance on July 26

International Event:

1499 - Alonso dhe Ojeda discovered Curacao Island.

1775 - First Postmaster General Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania appointed.

1803 - World's first public railway opened in south London.

1835 - First sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii.

1847 - First miniature train build by Moses Garrish Farmer.

1847 - Liberia got independence from the American Colonization Society.

1848 - First Woman's Rights Convention held in New York.

1865 - Patrick Francis Healy is the first black awarded Ph.D.

1915 - International School for Wijsbegeerte formed.

1938 - First radio broadcast of ""Young Widder Brown"" on NBC.

1947 - Department of Defense formed.

1947 - National Security Act established.

1957 - First intercontinental multistage ballistic missile launched by U.S.S.R.

1963 - First geosynchronous communications satellite U.S. Syncom 2 launched.

1965 - Republic of Maldives got independence from Britain.

1974 - First civil government formed in Greek by Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis.

1993 - First photo of Mars taken from 5 billion km.

Days Observed on July 26:

Independence Day - Liberia and Maldives

Kargil Victory Day - India

Historical Event on July 20

Remembrance on July 20

International Event:

1654 - Portugal came under English control.

1810 - Colombia got independence from Spain.

1847 - German astronomer Theodor discovered Comet Brorsen-Metcalf.

1848 - First Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls.

1855 - First train from Rotterdam to Utrecht in Netherlands.

1868 - First use of tax stamps on cigarettes.

1871 - British Columbia became the 6th Canadian province.

1878 - First telephone introduced in Hawaii.

1903 - The Ford Motor Company introduced its first car.

1920 - Heerenveen soccer team formed.

1924 - Federation Internationale des Echecs (FIDE) formed in Paris.

1935 - First broadcast of "Gang Busters" on NBC-radio.

1947 - First political action of the Netherlands Army on Java and Sumatra.

1956 - France recognized Tunisia's independence.

1960 - U.S.S.R. recovered 2 dogs. First living organisms to return from space.

1960 - Sirima Bandaranaike became the first female premier of Ceylon.

1960 - First submerged submarine in George Washington.

1968 - First International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago.

National Event:

1903 - British to increase the size of the Royal Army in India.

1905 - First Partition of Bengal was proposed by Lord Curzon and accepted by the British Government's Minister of India.

1924 - Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar established Bahishkrit Hitkarni Sabha.

1955 - Suez Canal nationalized by Gamal Abdul Nassar.

Days Observed on July 20:

Tree Planting Day - Central African Republic.

Engineer's Day - Costa Rica.

Independence Day - Colombia.