Thought Of The Day
"Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change. "
Learning never stops and knowledge never ends. So here come some interesting facts of the day to keep your general knowledge up-to-date.
Events that took place on this day in history 2 August
*In 1858,
Government of India transferred from East India Company to the British Crown.
*In 2019,
Seven-year-old boy operated on after 526 teeth found inside his mouth in Chennai, India.
National Anisette Day is observed on 2 August every year. Aniseed from the anis herb gives its licorice or fennel flavor to anisette.
*In 1787,
Swiss alpine explorer Horace Bénédict de Saussure becomes the third person to reach the top of Mont Blanc
*In 1819,
1st parachute jump in US by Frenchman Louis-Charles Guille over Jersey City
*In 1858,
Government of India transferred from East India Company to the British Crown
*In 1865,
Trans Atlantic Cable being laid by SS Great Eastern between Great Britain and America snaps and is lost
*In 1934,
Adolf Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of German armed forces
*In 1989
NASA confirmed
Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 & 1989 N24
Famous people that have birthdays on this day in history 2 August
*In 1944,
Aruna Kumari Galla, daughter of former Indian Parliamentarian, social activist Paturi Rajagopala Naidu.
*In 1961,
Rajan Vichare, Indian politician and a Shiv Sena member of parliament representing Thane, Maharashtra.
*In 1882,
Purushottam Das Tandon was a freedom fighter from Uttar Pradesh, India.
*In 1892,
Ravishankar Raval was a painter, art teacher, art critic, journalist and essayist from Gujarat, India.
*In 1895,
Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya was an Indian entomologist and naturalist who spent most of his career at Bose Institute, Kolkata.
*In 1899,
Kamala Nehru was a freedom fighter and the wife of Jawaharlal Nehru.
*In 1920,
Annabhau Sathe was a social reformer, communist folk poet, and writer from Maharashtra, India.
*In 1933,
Meena Kumari was an Indian film actress and poet, who worked in Hindi films.
*In 1934,
Naresh Chandra was a 1956 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre, who served as the Cabinet Secretary of India.
Famous people that have death anniversaries on this day in history 2 August
*In 1920,
Bal Gangadhar Tilak was an Indian nationalist, teacher, and an independence activist.
*In 1999,
Nirad C. Chaudhuri was an eminent Indian writer of English Language.
*In 2000,
Ali Sardar Jafri was an Indian writer of Urdu language. He was also a poet, critic and film lyricist.
*In 2008,
Harkishan Singh Surjeet was an Indian Communist politician from Punjab, who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India from 1992 to 2005.
*In 2009,
Devendra Nath Dwivedi was an Indian politician and the Governor designate of Gujarat.
*In 2009,
Syed Muhammedali Shihab Thangal was a Muslim religious leader and politician from Kerala.
*In 2010,
Kandathil Mammen Mathew was an Indian newspaper editor who served as the editor-in-chief of the Malayalam-language daily, Malayala Manorama.