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Mars made its closest approach to Earth and maximum apparent brightness in nearly 60,000 years, 55,758,006 km (0.372719 AU), magnitude −2....

                                                                Ans: William Herschel Photo: www.britishempire.co.uk

 Mother Teresa ( Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, M.C)  was an Albanian born, Indian Roman Catholic Religious Sister  born on 26 August 1910 . M...

Althea Gibson was an American tennis player and professional golfer, and the first African-American athlete of either gender to cross t...

Pluto is the second-most-massive known dwarf planet in the Solar System after Eris. On August 24, 2006 , the International Astronomical U...

International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition is observed on annually August 23 , the day designated by UNESC...

Denis Papin was a French physicist, mathematician and inventor, best known for his pioneering invention of the steam digester, the forer...

John Lewis "Jan" Hall was born August 21, 1934 . He is an American physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics. He shared one fourt...

The Constitution of the Republic of Hungary of 1949 was adopted on 20 August 1949 and heavily amended on 23 October 1989, was Hungary...

World Humanitarian Day is observed on August 19 . It is a day dedicated to recognize humanitarian personnel and those who have lost their l...

Orville Wright , the co- inverter of airplane was born on   August 19, 1871 and died on January 30, 1948.  The Wright brothers   (Orville...

The Fundamental Law of Hungary , the country's constitution, was adopted on 18 April 2011 , promulgated a week later and went into forc...

Paul Kammerer was born on A ugust 17, 1880 , he was an Austrian biologist who studied and advocated the now largely abandoned Lamarckian...

Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt was Born on  August 16, 1832 , he was a German physician, psychologist, physiologist, philosopher, and professor...

photo: www.timeanddate.com  Independence Day (India) , observed annually on 15 August , is a national holiday in India commemorating t...

  photo: www.theguardian.com An Indian navy submarine ( INS Sindhurakshak) with about 18 sailors on board has caug...

photo: www.magnet.fsu.edu Hans Christian Orsted was born on August 14, 1777 and he was a Danish physicist and chemist who discovere...

photo:arjun manoharan International Lefthanders Day is observed on August 13 by Lefthanders International. It was first observed 1...

photo courtesy: news.bbc.co.uk   Alan Ross McWhirter ( known as Ross McWhirter ) was born on August 12, 1925 . He was the co-founder o...

International Youth Day is an awareness day designated by the United Nations. It was first on 12 August 2000 . As with other political awa...