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Historical Event on 8/3/1939

Apoorva Kumar Sengupta, cricketer (1959 Test - India vs WI, without distinction), was born in Lucknow.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/21/1997Krishan Kant assumes office as tenth Vice President of India.
9/7/1999Haider Noorani, BJP candidate for the Anantang Lok Sabha seat, killed in bomb blast.
3/11/1971Indira Gandhi wins majority in Parliament.
2/9/1992Pakistan bans JKLF march.
3/27/1989T. N. Seshan was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 23-12-1989.
2/16/1923Vishnu Moreshwar Mahajani, famous author, poet and playwright, passed away.
2/24/1946Mrs. Kashibai and Mrs. Babbai Lakshman, freedom fighters, were shot dead by the police.
10/28/1996Press Council of India to set up a 5-member committee headed by Chairman P.B. Sawant to inquire into the attack on journalists outside the New Delhi residence of Kanshi Ram.
10/5/1868Laxmi Narayan Barua, Assamia novelist, was born.
10/20/1998Security forces unearth 770 kg of RDX and plastic explosives in the Tangmay area of Baramulla district in Jammu and Kashmir.