On This Day
8 June
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1901 A British appointed commission estimated that some 12 lakh Indians had died of a severe drought, lasting since 1899.
- 1916 Swami Chinmayananda, Hindu spiritual leader and a teacher, was born in Ernakulam, Kerala. In 1951, he founded Chinmaya Mission, a worldwide nonprofit organisation, in order to spread the knowledge of Advaita Vedanta, the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, and other ancient Hindu scriptures.
- 1936 Indian State Broadcasting Service, started on 1 April 1930 on an experimental basis for two years, and permanently in May 1932, was renamed All India Radio.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1824 Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec, Canada.
- 1880 Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky delivered an emotional speech at the unveiling of a monument to Alexander Pushkin in Moscow.
- 1918 Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604, discovered. A nova is a star that temporarily becomes extremely bright and then returns to its original brightness.
- 1949 George Orwell published 1984, one of the most significant works of English literature which gives a nightmarish description of a totalitarian society. The phrase, Big Brother is watching you, stems from this work.
- 1949 Siam changed its name to Thailand.
- 1992 The first World Oceans Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- ⭐ Significance
- World Oceans Day is an international day that takes place annually on 8 June. The purpose of the Day is to inform the public of the impact of human actions on the ocean, develop a worldwide movement of citizens for the ocean, and mobilize and unite the world’s population on a project for the sustainable management of the world's oceans.
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