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Historical Event on 8/3/1886
Maithili Sharan Gupta, first man of modern Hindi poetry and literature, writer, patriot and social worker, was born at Chirgaon village near Jhansi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/1/1882 | Savings Bank Postal system was introduced. |
| 1/10/1996 | All in all, it has been a long story of nearly nine decades, with the early shaky screen images turning into a multi-pronged and multi-winged empire of its own, that has yielded about 27,000 feature films and thousands of documented short films. |
| 11/7/1912 | Chithira Tirunal Bala Rama Varma, social reformer, was born at Travancore. |
| 11/9/1904 | Panchanan Maheshwari was born in Jaipur, Rajasthan. He studied the morphology, anatomy and embryology of some angiosperms, the class of plants which produce flowers with different embryological studies. He discovered species of plants like ""Panchanania Jaipuriensis and Isoeted Panchanani |
| 3/21/1966 | Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-P3) placed into polar orbit. This carries remote sensing payload and an X-ray astronomy payload. Launched by third developmental flight of India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-D3) which is for launching 1,000-1,200 kg class of remote sensing satellites into polar sun-synchronous orbit. Still in service. |
| 2/19/1993 | German Chancellor Helmut Kohl receives the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding from the President. |
| 4/14/1891 | Dr. Bhimrao Ramji 'Babasaheb' Ambedkar, India's great social reformer, politician, author, architect, lawyer and agitator, was born in Maharashtra. |
| 2/14/1628 | 5th Mughal Emperor Shahjahan was crowned. |
| 7/25/1813 | First boat race started at Calcutta on the Hooghly river where seven sailing boats had competed. |
| 1/9/1923 | Satyendranath Tagore, Bengali litterateur, passed away. |
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