Today Importance - 3rd August
3-Aug-1780
The British officer Captain Bruce defeated Scandia and captured the Gwalior fort under the command of Major Popham.
3-Aug-1886
Maithili Sharan Gupta, the first man of modern Hindi poetry and literature, writer, patriot and social activist was born in Chignon village near Jhansi.
3-Aug-1890
Freedom fighter, eminent writer and AICC member Shri Prakash was born in Varanasi.
3-Aug-1898
Birth of modern Hindi dramatist, poet and novelist Udaya Shankar Bhatt.
3-Aug-1900
Birth of the great revolutionary Nana Patel.
3-Aug-1905
Famous writer Uma Dutta Saraswat was born in the twenties of UP.
3-Aug-1930
Educationist Jayaprakash was born in Jaipur.
3-Aug-1930
Renowned astrologer and researcher BancTec Batumi Kelkar passed away.
3-Aug-1939
Apurva Kumar Sengupta, cricketer (1959 Test - India v West Indies, no difference), born Lucknow.
3-Aug-1947
Krishan Samika Party was established in Deva chi Alani.
3-Aug-1954
Establishment of Department of Atomic Energy.
3-Aug-1957
Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi's son and famous journalist Devas Gandhi passed away.
3-Aug-1960
Indian cricket's great off-spinner (2 Tests 1984-85) Gopal Sharma was born in Kanpur.
3-Aug-1967
Death of the great revolutionary Reskill Das.
3-Aug-1970
Chuniri Beliappa Muhammad, the first female career diplomat, was appointed Ambassador to Hungary.
3-Aug-1984
32 people were killed in the bomb attack at Madras airport.
3-Aug-1985
The Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service was given to Baba Amati.
3-Aug-1991
About 280 kg of gold ornaments worth $15 million, deposited in Portuguese banks by Goa locals, were brought back to India.
3-Aug-1993
Cable TV Regulation Bill introduced in Rajya Sabha.
3-Aug-1993
The government has assured the Lok Sabha that it will revive the proposal for a multi-member Election Commission.
3-Aug-1994
First effective heart relocate activity at All India Establishment of Clinical Sciences, New Delhi by Prof. P. Performed by a team of doctors headed by Venugopal (25-2-96).
3-Aug-1995
Maharashtra government cancels Enron power project.
3-Aug-1996
Leander Peas won bronze (tennis) in Atlanta, getting India an Olympic decoration a hole of 16 years.
3-Aug-1997
Mahesh Bharathi and Leander Peas won the doubles title at the Canadian Merrier Super Nines Doubles Open Tennis Championship held in Montreal.
3-Aug-1998
India's most exceptional medium-range surface-to-air rocket "Akash" was test-terminated from the Interval Test Reach at Chandpur-on-Ocean.
3-Aug-1998
35 people died in Mumbai's Bandar Govender Tower collapse.