Year 1581
Akbar, great Mughal Emperor, won Kabul.
AUGUST 10
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10 August: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 10 August.
Year 1741
The battle of colachel was fought between the kingdom of Travancore and the Dutch East India Company. Travancore, under Raja Marthanda Varma defeated the Dutch East India Company.
Year 1758
Marathas won the Atak.
Year 1904
Japanese troops were defeated by the Russian Amry at Port Aurther.
Year 1930
In the 'Gandhi Cap Case' in Guntur, the magistrate prohibits the wearing of Gandhi caps within a five-mile radius of the town.
Year 1942
Manju Bala Patil was shot on the road in Mumbai by the British Police.
Year 1948
Atomic Energy Commission was established.
Year 1963
The Kamraj Plan.
Year 1979
Rohini Technology Payload (RTP) intended for measuring the in-flight performance of the first experimental flight of SLV-3, the first Indian Space launch vehicle, which failed to be placed in orbit.
Year 1989
Panchayatraj' and 'Nagarpalika' bills were passed in Parliament's Lok Sabha.
Year 1991
Delhi airport police foils an attempt by a Saudi national to smuggle out a minor girl named Ameena.
Year 2000
Arjuna Ranatunga, former Sri Lankan cricket captain, retires from international cricket.
Year 2000
Parliament approves the Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Bill to create a hilly state of Uttaranchal.
Year 2008
An anti-AIDS vaccine was successfully tested in the Tuberculosis Research Centre in Chennai.
Year 2009
Twenty people are killed in Handlová, Trenčín Region, in the deadliest mining disaster in Slovakia's history.
Year 2012
The Marikana massacre begins near Rustenburg, South Africa, resulting in the deaths of 47 people.
Year 2014
Forty people are killed when Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 crashes at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport.
Year 2019
32 are killed and 1,000,000 are evacuated as Typhoon Lekima makes landfall in Zhejiang, China. Earlier it had caused flooding in the Philippines
Born 1755
Narayanrao Peshwa was born.
Born 1855
Alladiya Khan, the famous singer of Kolhapur court, was born.
Born 1860
Pandit Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande was a musicologist who wrote the first modern treatise on Hindustani classical music. He was the great architect of the renaissance of Hindustani music and who played a vital role in giving re-birth to North Indian classical music, was born at Balukeshwar, Maharashtra.
Born 1894
V. V. Giri, Indian lawyer and politician, 4th President of India (d. 1980). The fourth former President of India, was born at Berhampur in Orissa. He was one of the patriarchs of Trade Union Movement of India.
Born 1901
Narayan Pillai Gopala Pillai, the great poet and educationist, was born in Quilon, Kerala.
Born 1905
Sundarji Gokuldas Betard, modern Gujrathi poet, was born.
Born 1917
Prem Adib was a film actor who was acclaimed as one of the top Bollywood actors of the 1940s. He is best remembered for his roles as Lord Rama in Bharat Milap and Ram Rajya.
Born 1927
Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu, the first Indian astronomer, litterateur and Urdu poet, was born at Madras.
Born 1938
Fateh Singh Rathore was a tiger conservationist. He joined the Indian Forest Service in 1960 and was part of the first Project Tiger team. He worked for over 50 years in wildlife conservation.
Born 1943
Shafqat Rana, Indian-Pakistani cricketer
Born 1956
Perween Warsi, Indian-English businesswoman
Born 1963
Phoolan Devi, also known as “Bandit Queen”, was an Indian bandit and member of the parliament.
Born 1975
Hemant Soren is the current CM of Jharkhand. He also previously served as the CM of Jharkhand from July 2013 to December 2014. He is also the president of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha political party.
Born 1979
Shabir Ahluwalia is a television actor and host who is majorly known for portraying the role of ‘Abhishek Mehra’ in ‘Kumkum Bhagya’.
Born 1991
Pratyusha Banerjee was a television actress who appeared in numerous television and reality shows. She first gained recognition from ‘Balika Vadhu’ in which she played the role of ‘Anandi’.
Born 1992
B. Sai Praneeth is a badminton player who became the first Indian male shuttler in 36 years to win a bronze medal in the BWF World Championships in 2019 after Prakash Padukone in 1983. He was honoured with the Arjun Award in 2019.
Born 2005
Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa is a chess prodigy. He is the 4th youngest person to achieve the title of ‘Grandmaster’, behind Sergey Karjakin, Gukesh D, and Javokhir Sindarov.
Died 1977
Shyamlal Gupta, popularly known as Parshad, was an Indian poet and lyricist.
Died 1986
Gen. A.S. Vaidya, who was Chief of Army Staff, at the time of 'Operation Blue Star', was shot dead at Pune.
Died 1992
P. P. Thorat, retired Lt and General, died.
Died 1993
Narayan Keshav Upasni, famous educationist, passed away.
Died 1995
Harishankar Parsai was a noted Hindi writer, satirist, and humorist of modern Hindi literature. He is best known for his simple and direct style.
Died 1998
Sri Bhuteshanandji Maharaj, 97, president of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, died in Calcutta.
Died 1999
Acharya Baldev Upadhyaya was a Hindi, Sanskrit scholar, literary historian, essayist and critic who wrote numerous books, collections of essays and a historical outline of Sanskrit literature.
Died 2011
PC Alexander, short for Padinjarethalakal Cherian Alexander, was an IAS officer from the 1948 batch. He served as the Governor of Tamil Nadu from 1988 to 1990 and as the Governor of Maharashtra from 1993 to 2002. He was also considered as a candidate for the post of the President of India in 2002.