Did You Say Plasma TV?

31.08.1889

(Thomas Alva Edison invents the Kinetoscope.)

Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ле́нин

30.08.1918

(Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, shot at by a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, survives three shots.)

Moon-Walk

29.08.1958

(Popstar Michael Jackson, born in Gary, Indiana.)

Gibernau, Try This!

29.08.1885

(First motorcycle patented by Gottlieb Daimler in Germany.)

Still Alive

28.08.1963

(Martin Luther King Jr. delivers the "I have a dream..." speech at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC.)

War And Peace?

28.08.1828

(Count Leo Tolstoy born in Vasnaya Polyana, Russia.)

The Last Viceroy

27.08.1979

(Lord Louis Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of India killed by the IRA).

Mariner 2

27.08.1962

(Unmanned American space craft, Mariner2, launched on an exploratory mission to Venus.)

What A Voice!

27.08.1976

(Indian playback singer Mukesh passes away at a Detroit Hotel.)

Birth Of Kindness!

27.08.1910

(Agnes Bojaxhiu, a.k.a Mother Teresa is born in Skopje, Yugoslavia, now Macedonia.)

Still Flying High!

26.08.1974

(Charles Augustus Lindbergh, the man who flew solo from New York to Paris, passes away.)

BBC

26.08.1936

(First "High Definition" T.V. signal transmitted by the BBC, London.)

To Boldly Go...

25.08.1989

(Voyager II reaches Neptune after twelve years and sends back pictures of the planet's moons.)

Image Above: Neptune with Triton

First Step

24.08.1946

(Jawaharlal Nehru appointed head of interim government, by Lord Wavell.)

Superwoman!

24.08.1932

(Amelia Earhart begins her first solo and non-stop flight across the Atlantic in a Lockheed Vega and becomes the first woman to achieve this feat.)

Kalikata, Calcutta and Kolkata!

24.08.1690

(Job Charnock established a trading post in the village of Kalikata, in West Bengal.)

Forty Thousand Lives

23.08.1942

(The German Fourth Air Fleet reduces the Russian city of Stalingrad to a burning rubble, killing over forty thousand civilians.)

Beep-Beep

23.08.1995

(India's first cellular phone network launched in Calcutta, West Bengal.)

Picture above is of a Siemens S6, my first cellular phone in 1997(8?).

When Wounded In Battle

22.08.1864

(Geneva Convention, signed by twelve countries.)

Image from the Nobel Prize Website.
(© Photothèque CICR (DR))

Mona - Lisa

21.08.1913

(Da Vinci's Mona Lisa stolen from the Louvre Museum, Paris.)

"Paradise Lost"

20.08.1667

(John Milton's "Paradise Lost" published.)

"Not High Enough"

19.08.1960

(U-2 pilot, Gary Powers, sentenced to ten years in Soviet Prison - Espionage.)

Come Together

18.08.1930

(Halves of Sydney Harbour Bridge joined together.)

Missing

18.08.1945

(Aircraft carrying Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose to Taiwan declared missing.)

Woman In Africa

17.08.1996

(Ruth Sando Perry elected President of Liberia, the first African woman head of state.)

The Indian From Trinidad!

17.08.1932

(Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul born in Trinidad.)

End Of Rock 'n' Roll

16.08.1977

(Elvis Presley found dead at his home in Memphis TN. ; Age 42.)

Independence Day

15.08.1947   (Image: 30.July.1857 - First Revolt)

(India gains independence from the British.)