Time Capsule

Mary Shelley (Aug 30, 1797-Feb 1, 1851)

Michael Jackson is born (August 29, 1958)

Hrishikesh Mukherjee (Sept 30, 1922- Aug 27, 2006)

Ahmad Faraz (January 12, 1931- August 25, 2008)

George Orwell’s Animal Farm is published (Aug 17, 1945)

Independence Day (August 15)

VS Naipaul (August 17,1932-August 11, 2018)

Shyamlal Gupta (September 9, 1896-August 10, 1977)

Atom bomb dropped on Nagasaki (August 9, 1945)

Sarla Thukral (August 8, 1914-March 15, 2008)

India win 1st Women’s Junior Hockey WC (Aug 4, 2013)

Maithili Sharan Gupt (Aug 3, 1886-Dec 12, 1964)

Pingali Venkayya (August 2, 1876–July 4, 1963)

Meena Kumari (August 1, 1933-March 31, 1972)

Munshi Premchand’s birth anniversary (July 31, 1880 – October 8, 1936)

Johnny Walker (Nov 11, 1926-July 29, 2003)

World War I (28 July, 1914 – 11 Nov, 1918)

Dr APJ Abdul Kalam (Oct 15, 1931-July 27, 2015)

George Bernard Shaw (July 26, 1856-Nov 2, 1950)

Louise Joy Brown (first IVF baby born on July 25, 1978)

Bal Gangadhar Tilak (23 July, 1856 - 1 August, 1920)

Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899- July 2, 1961)

Batukeshwar Dutt (Nov 18, 1910-July 20, 1965)

Nationalisation of private banks (July 19, 1969)

Nelson Mandela (July 18, 1918-Dec 5, 2013)