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Important events of history that took place in India and elsewhere on today’s date.

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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