Today Importance - 3rd August

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.