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

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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