On This Day
8 August
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1509 The coronation of Maharaj Krishnadeva Raya as Emperor of the Vijay Nagar Empire.
- 1914 Sarla Thakral, the first Indian woman to fly an aircraft, was born.
- 1942 Quit India Movement was launched in India against the British rule in response to Mahatma Gandhi's call for swaraj or complete independence.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1963 Great Train Robbery: In England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal £2.6 million in bank notes.
- 1976 Thomas Edison patented the mimeograph machine.
- 1990 Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward.
- 2011 Tibetan scholar Lobsang Sangay was inaugurated as prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, becoming the first non-monk and the first person born outside Tibet to hold the position.
- ⭐ Significance
- Quit India Day, also known as August Kranti Diwas, is celebrated by paying tribute to freedom fighters with national integration speeches and other events. The Quiz India Movement was a protest initiated to demand an end to the British rule in India. It was started on August 8, 1942.
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