New Delhi. While walking on the road, you must have seen traffic signals installed at many places. It would be interesting to know when it started. The first electric traffic light was installed in America on 5 August 1914 and at that time it had only green and red lights, one for stopping and the other for moving. Later, a third yellow light was also installed in it.
Talking about another big event of this day, it was on 5th August in the year 1991 when Justice Leela Seth was made the Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court. She became the first woman to achieve this position. The credit of being the first woman judge of Delhi High Court also goes to her.
The chronological details of some of the major events recorded on 5 August in the history of the country and the world are as follows:-
1775: Maharaja Nandakumar of West Bengal was hanged in Calcutta (now Kolkata). This was the last execution for fraud in India by the British rule.
1874: Japan introduced a postal savings system on the lines of England.
1888: The wife of Carl Benz, the inventor of the car, covered a long distance of 104 kilometres by car for the first time.
1912: The first taxi service in Japan started in Ginza, Tokyo.
1914: The first electric traffic light was installed in America.
1914: Cuba, Uruguay, Mexico and Argentina declare neutrality during World War I.
1915: During the First World War, Germany took over Versailles. Earlier, this area was under the control of Russia.
1921: The United States and Germany signed the Berlin Peace Treaty.
1923: Henry Sullivan becomes the first American to swim across the English Channel.
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1949: Six thousand people died in an earthquake of magnitude 6.7 in Quito, the capital of Ecuador.
1960: African country Burkina Faso declared independence.
1963: Russia, Britain and the United States signed a Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in Moscow.
1991: Justice Leila Seth became the first woman Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court.
2011: NASA scientists claimed in Science magazine that there is flowing water on Mars.
FIRST PUBLISHED : August 4, 2024, 22:28 IST
