International Lefthanders Day

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International Lefthanders Day is observed on August 13 by Lefthanders International. It was first observed 13 August 1976. As its name suggests, it is meant to promote awareness of the inconveniences facing left-handers in a predominantly right-handed world.

Co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records

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 Alan Ross McWhirter( known as Ross McWhirter) was born on August 12, 1925. He was the co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records and a contributor to Record Breakers with his twin brother, Norris. He died on November 27, 1975. 

International Youth Day

International Youth Day is an awareness day designated by the United Nations. It was first on 12 August 2000. As with other political awareness days, such as Earth Day, the purpose of the day is to draw attention to a given set of cultural and legal issues surrounding an endangered demographic.

  

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First ascent of the Eiger

The Eiger is a 3,970 metres  mountain in the Bernese Alps in Switzerland. It is the easternmost peak of a ridge crest that extends across the Monch to the Jungfrau at 4,158 m. The first ascent of the Eiger was made by Swiss guides Christian Almer and Peter Bohren and Irishman Charles Barrington, who climbed the west flank on August 11, 1858.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

Jean-Francois Lyotard was a French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist. He is well known for his articulation of postmodernism(It is a term which describes the postmodernist movement in the arts, its set of cultural tendencies and associated cultural movements.). He was born on 10 August 1924 and died on 21 April 1998.

International Day of the World's Indigenous People

The International Day of the World's Indigenous People is observed on August 9 each year to promote and protect the rights of the world’s indigenous population. It was first pronounced by the General Assembly of the United Nations in December 1994.

Ernest Orlando Lawrence

Ernest Orlando Lawrence was born August 8, 1901. He was an American physicist and Nobel Laureate, known for his invention, utilization, and improvement of the cyclotron atom-smasher beginning in 1929, based on his studies of the works of Rolf Widerøe, and his later work in uranium-isotope separation for the Manhattan Project.He died on August 27, 1958.

Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey

Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey was born on August 7, 1903. He was a British archaeologist and naturalist whose work was important in establishing human evolutionary development in Africa, particularly through his discoveries in the Olduvai Gorge. He died on October 1, 1972. 

 

Atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima

The day when an atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima 6 August 1945, followed a few days later (August 9,1945) by another dropped on the city of Nagasaki.

Niels Henrik Abel

Niels Henrik Abel was born on August 5, 1802. He was a Norwegian mathematician who proved the impossibility of solving the quintic equation by radicals and he died on  April 6, 1829. 

Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama is the 44th and current President of the United States, the first African American to hold the office. He was born on August 4, 1961.

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Jesse Wilford Reno

Jesse Wilford Reno was born on August 4, 1861. He was invented the first working escalator in 1891 used at the Old Iron Pier, Coney Island, New York City. His invention was referred to as the "inclined elevator." He died on June 2, 1947. 

 

Louisiana Superdome dedicated

The Mercedes-Benz Superdome originally Louisiana Superdome  is a domed sports and exhibition venue, located at the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA opened August 3, 1975.

Frederic Auguste Bartholdi

Frederic Auguste Bartholdi was born on August2, 1834. He was a French sculptor who is best known for designing the Statue of Liberty and he died on October4, 1904.

Speed Post started In India

Speed Post was started by Department of Posts (India) in August 1, 1986 for providing time-bound and express delivery of letters, documents and parcels across the nation and around the world.

Friedrich Wohler

Friedrich Wohler was born on 31 July 1800. H was a German chemist, best known for his synthesis of urea. He died on 23 September 1882.

Francoise Barre - Sinoussi

Francoise Barre - Sinoussi was born 30 July 1947. She  is a French virologist and director of the Regulation of Retroviral Infections Division at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France and performed some of the fundamental work in the identification of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as the cause of AIDS.

International Tiger Day

Global Tiger Day, also known as International Tiger Day , is an annual celebration to raise awareness for tiger conservation, held annually on 29 July. It was created in 2010 at the Saint Petersburg Tiger Summit.

World Hepatitis Day

World Hepatitis Day, observed on July 28 every year, aims to raise global awareness of hepatitis B and hepatitis C and encourage prevention, diagnosis and treatment.

Johann Bernoulli

Johann Bernoulli was a Swiss mathematician and was born on  27 July 1667. He  was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family. He is known for his contributions to infinitesimal calculus and educated Leonhard Euler. He died on 1 January 1748.