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

1 August

🇮🇳 In India

1916 Annie Besant, former president of the Indian National Congress, launched the Home Rule League.

1920 Mahatma Gandhi started the Non-Cooperation Movement.

1920 Bal Gangadhar Tilak, early Indian nationalist leader, dies at 64.

1953 All airlines in the country were nationalized on 1953.

1957 National Book Trust, an autonomous body under the Ministry of Education of the Government of India, was established.

1999 Bengali and English writer Nirad C. Chaudhary died in Britain.

🌎 Elsewhere

0030 BCE Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.

1498 Christopher Columbus lands on "Isla Santa" (Venezuela)

1774 English chemist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen by isolating it in its gaseous state.

1793 France becomes first country to use the metric system.

1819 American writer Herman Melville—best known for his novels of the sea, most notably Moby Dick (1851)—was born.

1834 Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into effect, abolishes slavery throughout the British Empire.

1883 Inland postal service begins in Great Britain.

1907 First Scout camp opens on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour, southern England, organised by Lieutenant-General Baden-Powell.

1936 Adolf Hitler presided over the opening of the Berlin Olympic Games.

1939 Synthetic vitamin K is produced for the first time.

1944 The final entry was recorded in the diary of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl who spent two years in hiding during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands; 3 days later she is arrested.

1994 Thousands of historic documents and more than 100,000 books are destroyed in a blaze which ripped through Norwich Central Library, UK.

1996 American author George R.R. Martin published A Game of Thrones, the first installment in his hugely popular fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire.

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