Year 1905
Chittaranjan Das "Desh Bandhu", freedom fighter and advocate, started an organisation named "Swadeshi Mandali". He also founded magazine named Narayana in 1914 and a Bengali weekly in 1922 and the daily 'Forward'.
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6 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 6 August.
Year 1920
'Shakuntala' made by Oriental Film Mfg. Co. was released.
Year 1920
Star Films Ltd., Bombay, was founded by Ardeshir M. lrani and Bhogilal K. M. Dave.
Year 1920
Film Censor Board at Bombay started working. The first film censored and granted a Censor Certificate No. 1 was a short film of 600 ft., produced by Gaumont Company and it was titled as 'Gaumont Graphic No. 963-964'. The Regional Film Censor Boards were also set-up in Calcutta, Madras and Rangoon.
Year 1926
Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
Year 1932
Ramsay McDonald came out with his 'Communal Award' to fix seats for the various communities in the provincial legislatures.
Year 1940
The Soviet Union illegally annexed Estonia.
Year 1945
The US dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. For the first time in history, an atomic bomb was used.
Year 1960
Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalized American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
Year 1962
Jamaica gained independence from England.
Year 1962
Peking agrees to talks with India to settle border disputes.
Year 1965
Indian troops invade Pakistan.
Year 1989
Six top Cricket stars banned for one year from all cricket activities on the issue of American tour.
Year 1993
Medha Patkar suspends anti-Narmada stir and drops her ''jal samarpan'' threat.
Year 1994
The Muslim Auqaf Trust takes over charge of the Hazratbal shrine after the removal of security bunkers around it by authorities.
Year 1996
Dr. Raj Kumar was conferred Dada Saheb Phalke award.
Year 1997
Sri Lanka set a new record of 952/6 in a Test match against India in Colombo. Sanat Jayasuriya scored 340 runs.
Year 1996
SC asks Harshad Mehta to pay Rs. 217 crore to I.T. department.
Year 1997
Cabinet approves a proposal to amend the Hindu Marriage Act and the Special Marriage Act, with a view to removing epilepsy as a ground for annulling marriage or for declaring marriage as null and void.
Year 1998
SriKrishna Commission report was tabled by the Maharashtra government. It was rejected by the ruling alliance whom it heavily indicted.
Year 1998
The Maharashtra Government rejects the Srikrishna Commission findings on the 1992-93 communal riots and the serial blasts in Mumbai, but agrees to act on the panel's suggestions to refurbish the police force.
Year 2000
Sundararajan Kidambi becomes the new International Master in the Beil Open chess championship at Biel.
Year 2008
A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.
Year 2010
Flash floods across a large part of Jammu and Kashmir, India, damages 71 towns and kills at least 255 people.
Year 2011
War in Afghanistan: A United States military helicopter is shot down, killing 30 American special forces members and a working dog, seven Afghan soldiers, and one Afghan civilian. It was the deadliest single event for the United States in the War in Afghanistan.
Year 2012
NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.
Year 2015
A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the Saudi city of Abha.
Born 1809
Alfred Tennyson, a British poet.
Born 1881
Alexander Fleming, a Scottish physician, and microbiologist.
Born 1933
A. G. Kripal Singh, Indian cricketer (d. 1987)
Born On This Day
1933
Born On This Day
Kripal Singh Govindsingh, Amritsar, India, 100* on debut v NZ 1959, was born at Madras.
Born 1959
Rajendra Singh, an Indian water conservationist, and environmentalist.
Born 1970
M. Night Shyamalan, an American filmmaker, philanthropist, and actor.
Born 1970
M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-American director, producer, and screenwriter
Born 1987
Aditya Narayan, an Indian playback singer, television host, and Bollywood actor.
Died 1925
Surendranath Banerjee, one of the earliest Indian political leaders during the British Rule. He was one of the founders of mordern India and proponent of autonomy within the British Commonwealth. He was President of Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad.
Died 1951
Rukmini Lakshmipathi, great social reformer and leader, died.
Died 1982
S. K. Pottekkatt, an Indian writer of Malayalam literature and a politician.
Died 1997
Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya was an Indian writer.
Died 1997
Army confirms social activist Sanjay Ghose's death who was abducted by ULFA.
Died 1999
Kalpnath Rai, an Indian politician.
Died 2001
Adhar Kumar Chatterji, Indian Naval officer (b. 1914)
Died 2019
Sushma Swaraj, an Indian politician, and a Supreme Court lawyer.