Most Important Static GK from August Month. These static GK facts are very important and expected to be asked in the upcoming AFCAT SSC CGL CPO SI Exam.
The World Wide Web (www) was introduced by Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, on 1 Aug 1989 while working at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research).
The world's first underground railway beneath the River Thames in London opened to the public on August 2, 1870.
On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
On August 7, 1905, the Swadeshi Movement kicked off from Town Hall, Calcutta, calling for the boycott of British goods.
On August 10, 2003, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko made history as the first person to marry while in space. The ceremony took place aboard the International Space Station, with his bride, Ekaterina Dmitrieva, in Texas.
On August 11, 1988, terrorist organization “Al-Qaeda” was formed at a meeting attended by Osama Bin Laden in Peshawar, Pakistan.
On 13 Aug 1961, Berlin was divided into East and West Berlin. The division was marked by the construction of the Berlin Wall. The Berlin Wall fell on 9 November 1989.
The Bombay High Court, one of the oldest High Courts in India, was inaugurated on August 14, 1862, under the High Court’s Act, 1861. The first Chief Justice of Bombay High Court was Sir Mathew Richard Sausse.
India is not the only country to have gained independence on this date. Other countries include South Korea, North Korea, Bahrain, the Republic of the Congo, and Liechtenstein.
The Radcliffe Line, a boundary that demarcates India and Pakistan, was unveiled on August 17, 1947.
The division by Radcliffe resulted in three distinct entities: India, West Pakistan, and East Pakistan.
On 18 August 1945, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose boarded a Japanese bomber plane at Taipei, Taiwan which crashed just after take-off.
The East India Company minted its first rupee coin at the Calcutta mint on 19 Aug 1757. The Calcutta Mint closed operations in 1952 when a new mint was established at Alipore.
On 20 Aug 1900, Cricket made its only appearance in the Olympics at the Paris 1900 Olympics, when only two teams played. Great Britain defeated France. Cricket has been officially included now at the Los Angeles Olympics 2028.
On Aug. 21, 1911, Leonardo da Vinci's “Mona Lisa” was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris. (It was recovered two years later in Italy.)
On August 22, 1639, the British East India Company purchased a piece of land known as Chennapatnam from the local Nayak rulers, establishing Madras.
On August 23, 1966, NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first-ever photo of Earth from the moon.
The first National Space Day 2024 was celebrated on 23 August 2024. On Aug 23, 2023. On Aug 23, 2023, India became the first country to land on the southern polar region of the Moon under Chandrayaan-3 mission.
On August 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union declared that Pluto was no longer a full-fledged planet, demoting it to the status of a “dwarf planet.”
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a cornerstone of Western military cooperation, officially came into being on August 24, 1949.
The world's first oil well was drilled in Titusville in Pennsylvania, the U.S.A. on August 27, 1859.
On August 28, 1986, Bhagyashree Sathe became the first Indian woman to achieve the title of grandmaster in chess.
