On August 22, 1864, international Red Cross founded the conference adopted the first Geneva Convention ‘For the Amelioration of Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field’.
Author: Amit Jain
22 August, 1902 – Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
The BBC begin its own regular television programme from the basement of Broadcasting House, London, on 22 August 1932.
Girija kumar Mathur (22 August 1919 – 10 January 1994) was a notable Indian writer. He is noted for his translation of the popular English song “We Shall Overcome” into Hindi.
Edna Annie Proulx (born August 22, 1935) is an American journalist and author, best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning short story Brokeback Mountain.
Shivaram Hari Rajguru (24 August 1908 – 23 March 1931) was an Indian revolutionary from Maharashtra.
25 August 1609 – Galielo demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian Lawmakers.
25 August 1932 – Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam first woman to solo across the Atlantic.
25 August 1768 -James Cook begins his first Voyage.
25 August 1991-Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux.
Charles Robert Richet (born on 25 August 1850) was a French physiologist, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology ‘In recognition of his work on anaphylaxis’ in 1913.
Kenneth Joseph Arrow (23 August 1921) was the joint winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with John Hicks in 1972.
