National Handloom Day, Quit India Movement & Rabindranath Tagore 7 August 2026
Dear Readers, Today 7th August 2026, we would like to remind you once again of some of the things that happened today.
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National Energy Conservation Day - Vijay Amritraj, Indian Tennis Player, Sports Commentator, Actor - Tycho Brahe, Danish Astronomer - Max Planck, German Physicist - Wright Brothers First Flying Attempt - Roald Amundsen, Norwegian Explorer - Somasundara Bharathiar, Tamil Scholar - Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov, Soviet Nuclear Physicist - December 14
International Mountain Day - Subramania Bharathi, Independence Activist, Tamil Writer, Poet, Journalist - Pranab Mukherjee, Former President of India - Viswanathan Anand, Indian Chess Grandmaster - Max Born, German Physicist, Nobel Laureate - Charles Fabry, French Physicist - M.S.Subbulakshmi, Carnatic Musician - December 11
Human Rights Day - International Animal Rights Day - Nobel Prize Award Ceremony - Rajaji (Chakravarti Rajagopalachari) - Independence Activist, India's Last Governor-General, Former Chief Minister of Tamilnadu, Lawyer, Writer - Madan Lal Mehta, Indian Physicist - V.C.Kulandaiswamy, Scholar & Educationist - December 10
International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development - World Soil Day - J.Jayalalithaa, Former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Politician, Actress - Electric Vehicle Introduced - Sri Aurobindo, Indian Spiritualist - Kalki Krishnamurthy, Tamil Writer - Walt Disney, Cartoonist - Werner Karl Heisenberg, German Theoretical Physicist - Isro, Test - Nelson Mandela, Former President of South Africa - December 5
Navy Day - R.Venkataraman, Former President of India, Independence Activist, Lawyer - I.K.Gujral, Former Prime Minister of India, Independence Activist - V.R.Krishna Iyar, Former Judge of Apex Court - Sir Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan, Indian Physicist - William Sturgeon, Physicist & Inventor - December 4
International Day of Persons with Disabilities - Advocates' Day - Rajendra Prasad, Former President of India, Lawyer, Independence Activist, Politician - Khudiram Bose, Freedom Fighter - Sir Rowland Hill - Teacher - Inventor - Postal & Social Reformer - Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn, Swedish Physicist & Nobel laureate - Indo-Pakistan War - December 3
National Pollution Control Day - World Computer Literacy Day - International Day for the Abolition of Slavery - George Richards Minot, American Physician & Nobel Laureate - Gerardus Mercator, Geographer, Inventor of world Map - V.A.Shiva Ayyadurai, Indian-American Engineer & Inventor of Email - Parithimar Kalaignar Books, Nationalisation - December 2
World Computer Security Day - Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian Scientist - George Herbert Walker Bush, Former U.S President - Paul Walker, Actor - I.K.Gujral, Former Prime Minister of India - K.R.Vijaya, Indian Actress - T.R.Ramachandran, Indian Actor - World's First International Football Match - November 30
Universal Children's Day - Africa Industrialization Day - Tipu Sultan, Ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore - Selma Lagerlof, Swedish Author - Willem de Sitter, Dutch Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer - Arieh Warshel, Israeli-American Biochemist, Biophysicist - Joe Biden, Politician, 46th & Present President of the United States - Microsoft's Windows 1.0 Released - November 20
Sania Mirza - Indian Tennis Player - V.R.Krishna Iyer, India's former Supreme Court Judge - Vinoba Bhave, Freedom Fighter - Jharkhand, Founded - Charles Thompson Rees Wilson, Discoverer of Wilson Cloud Chamber - Intel, Released 4004 - Gemini 12 Spacecraft - Luna 17 spacecraft with Lunokhod - October 15
World Science Day for Peace and Development - International Guinness World Records Day - Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian General, Inventor, Military Engineer, Small Arms Designer - Martin Luther, German Priest, Theologian - William Hogarth, Painter - United States, Telecommunications - Soviet Luna 17 Spacecraft - Apple's First iPod Sale - Pushpa Thangadorai, Writer - October 10
International Animation Day - Bill Gates (William Henry Gates III), American Business Magnate, Software Developer, Investor, Author, Philanthropist - Sister Nivedita, Irish Teacher, Author, Social Activist, School Founder, Disciple of Swami Vivekananda - Friedrich Max Muller, German linguist - Airbus A300 - Mysore V.Duraisamy, Musician - October 28
TLSA Act - International Day of the Girl Child - Samuel Vedanayagam Pillai, Indian Civil Servant, Tamil Poet, Novelist, Social Worker - Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, German Physician, Astronomer - First Spacecraft Pioneer 1 launched to Moon - First Manned Apollo 7 spacecraft launched - 11 October
International day of older persons - World vegetarian day - Annie besant, british socialist, theosophist, womens, rights, activist, educationist, philanthropist - National voluntary blood donation day - Indian postal department established - Sivaji Ganesan, great tamil film actor - Andhra Pradesh formed, Walt Disney World established - 1 October
Vinoba Bhave, Philosopher, Freedom Fighter, Founder of Bhoodhan Movement - Hiroshi Amano, Japanese Physicist, Engineer, Inventor - Bharathiyar, Poet - Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Founder of Pakistan - First World Parliament of Religions - Attack on World Trade Center and Pentagon - O Henry, Writer - 11 September
World Suicide Prevention Day - Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese video game designer - Pinnathur A.Narayanasamy Iyer, Tamil scholar - Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher, mathematician and scientist - Basappa Dhanappa Jatti, Former Vice President of India - Elias Howe, Inventor - A.K.Chettiar, Author - George Mary Searle, Astronomer - 10 September
T.N.Rajarathinam Pillai (Nadaswara Chakravarthi), Indian Carnatic Musician, Vocalist, Film Actor - Mountbatten, Former Governor-General of India - Heinkel He 178, World's first jet aircraft - First Edition of Guinness Book of World Records, Launch - A.S.Gnanasambanthan, Writer - Rowland Hill, Inventor - 27 August
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian Nationalist, Leader, Freedom Fighter - Baji Rao, 7th Peshwa of Maratha empire - R.S.Subalakshmi, Social Reformer, Fought for Feminism - Vijayalakshmi Pandit, Former President of the United Nations - Pierre Janssen, French Astronomer - Chennai Music Academy, Inauguration - 18 August
Vethathiri Maharishi, Yoga Guru, World Peace Activist, Philosopher, Writer - Tannu-Tuva, New Country - Edouard Goubert, Mayor & First Chief Minister - Israel-Lebanon War - Pakistan, Independence - N.M.R.Subbaraman, Freedom Fighter - Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav, First Indian Athlete Won Bronze In Olympics - Employment News - 14 August
International Left Hander's Day - T.K.Murthy, Renowned Indian Mridangam Player - Rene Laennec, Inventor - John Logie Baird, Inventor - Alfred Hitchcock, Film Maker - Florence Nightingale, Founder of Modern Nursing - Harry Brearley, Inventor - Eduard Buchner, Inventor - Frederick Sanger, Inventor - Fidel Castro, Cuban Revolutionist - Pakistan - National Anthem - Central African Republic, Independence - 28th Olympics, Athens - Somnath Chatterjee, Indian Politician - 13 August
Enid Blyton, Famous Children's Writer - Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, Dravidian Linguist - Total Solar Eclipse, Europe and Asia - Jackson Pollock, Painter - Steve Wozniak, Apple Computer - Pervez Musharraf, Former President of Pakistan - Ranjan Roy Daniel, Indian Physicist - Mysore V.Doreswamy, Carnatic Veena virtuoso - 11 August
World History of 2nd July - World Sports Journalists Day -Mylswamy Annadurai (Moon Man of India), Indian Scientist - Simla Agreement - Sir William Henry Bragg, Inventor of X-Ray Spectrometer -Hermann Hesse, World-Famous Poet, Nobel Laureate for Literature - Douglas Engelbert, Inventor of the Computer Mouse - Wisława Szymbarska, Polish Poet, Nobel Laureate in Literature - First Walmart Store
P.V.Narasimha Rao - 9th Prime Minister of India - Maria Goeppert Mayer, Physicist, Nobel Prize Awardee - James Madison, Father of the Constitution, Fourth President of the United States - H.B.Ari Gowder, Speaker of the Madras Provincial Assembly - Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Indian Scientist & Applied Statistician - 28 June
