On This Day
12 August
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1602 Abul Fazal, Akbar's minister, was killed on the instructions of Jahangir. He was one of the Navratnas in the court of Akbar and author of Akbarnama, the official history of Akbar's reign in 3 volumes.
- 1765 The British East India Company's rule began in India under the Allahabad Treaty.
- 1892 S.R. Ranganathan, considered to be the father of library science, documentation, and information science in India, was born.
- 1919 Vikram Sarabhai, the father of the Indian space program, was born in Ahmedabad.
- 2009 India's famous economist C. Rangarajan was appointed as the Chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1492 Christopher Columbus arrives in the Canary Islands on his first voyage to the New World.
- 1851 Isaac Merrit Singer patented his sewing machine and formed I.M. Singer & Company to market the product.
- 1865 Joseph Lister, a British surgeon, performs first antiseptic surgery.
- 1877 Thomas Edison completes first model for the phonograph, a device that recorded sound onto tinfoil cylinders.
- 1883 The last known quagga, a type of zebra native to South Africa, died in the Amsterdam zoo.
- 1915 Of Human Bondage by William Somerset Maugham, published.
- 1945 Emperor Hirohito of Japan informs the imperial family that he has decided to surrender.
- 1955 German author and Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann, who was considered the greatest German novelist of the 20th century, died near Zürich, Switzerland.
- 1961 East Germany began construction of the Berlin Wall, which served as a symbol of the Cold War, separating East Berlin from West Berlin until 1989.
- 1964 South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country's racist policies.
- 1964 Ian Fleming, English spy, journalist, and author, died.
- 1981 Computer giant IBM introduces its first personal computer.
- 1990 The most complete and best-preserved skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex was found on South Dakota's Cheyenne River Sioux reservation, and it was nicknamed Sue, after Susan Hendrickson, the paleontologist who discovered the dinosaur fossil.
- ⭐ Significance
- International Youth Day is an awareness day designated by the United Nations. The purpose of the day is to draw attention to a given set of cultural and legal issues surrounding youth. It was observed on 12 August, 2000.
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