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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
| 8/3/1780 |
British officer captain Bruce conquered Gwalior fort under Major Popham after defeating Sindhiya. |
| 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. |
| 8/3/1890 |
Sriprakash, freedom fighter, prolific writer and member of the AICC, was born at Varanasi. |
| 8/3/1898 |
Udayshankar Bhatt, modern Hindi dramatist, poet and novelist, was born. |
| 8/3/1900 |
Nana Patil, great revolutionary, was born. |
| 8/3/1905 |
Uma Datt Sraswat, famous writer, was born at Biswan in U.P. |
| 8/3/1930 |
Jai Prakash, educationist, was born at Jaunpur. |
| 8/3/1930 |
Vyanktesh Bapuji Ketkar, famous astrologist and researcher, died. |
| 8/3/1939 |
Apoorva Kumar Sengupta, cricketer (1959 Test - India vs WI, without distinction), was born in Lucknow. |
| 8/3/1947 |
Shetkari Kamgar Party was established at Devachi Alandi. |
| 8/3/1954 |
Atomic Energy Department established. |
| 8/3/1957 |
Devdas Gandhi, son of Rashtrapita Mahatma Gandhiji and noted journalist, passed away. |
| 8/3/1960 |
Gopal Sharma, great Indian cricket off-spinner (2 Tests 1984-85), was born in Kanpur. |
| 8/3/1967 |
Rasiklal Das, great revolutionary, died. |
| 8/3/1970 |
Chonira Beliappa Muthamma, first women career diplomat, appointed ambassador to Hungary. |
| 8/3/1984 |
Bomb attack at Madras airport claims 32 lives. |
| 8/3/1985 |
Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service goes to Baba Amte. |
| 8/3/1991 |
About 280 kgs of gold ornaments valued at $15 million, which had been deposited in the Portuguese bank in Goa by its natives, flown back to India. |
| 8/3/1993 |
Bill to regulate cable TV introduced in Rajya Sabha. |
| 8/3/1993 |
Government assures Lok Sabha that it will revive the proposal for a multi-member election commission. |
| 8/3/1994 |
The first successful heart transplant operation was performed at the All India Institute of Medical Science, New Delhi, by a team of doctors led by Prof. P. Venugopal (25-2-96). |
| 8/3/1995 |
Enron Power Project scrapped by Maharashtra government. |
| 8/3/1996 |
Leander Paes wins a bronze (tennis) at Atlanta, bringing India an Olympic medal after a gap of 16 years. |
| 8/3/1997 |
Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes win the doubles title in the Canadian Maurier Super Nine Doubles Open tennis championships held in Montreal. |
| 8/3/1998 |
India's most sophisticated medium range surface-to-air missile ''Akash'' was test-fired from the interim test range at Chandipur-on-sea. |
| 8/3/1998 |
35 persons were killed as Govind Towers at Bandra in Mumbai collapsed. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/26/1985 | Rajiv Gandhi and Pakistan President Zia-ul-Haq meet in Delhi and agree not to attack nuclear plants in each other's country. |
| 10/19/1990 | The Government of India under an ordinance puts forward a three-point formula for Ayodhya issue: (i) to acquire the land (ii) other land may be given for building temple except the disputed one (iii) the issue may referred to Supreme Court for speedy solution. |
| 5/8/1906 | Prannath Thapar, former General of India, was born. |
| 10/20/1954 | Surendra Vithal Nayak "Suru Nayak", cricketer (two Tests for India v England 1982), was born in Bom |
| 10/5/1878 | First Indian circus was played by Vishnu Moreshwar Chhatre of Sangli at Mumbai. |
| 11/17/1928 | Lala Lajpat Rai died in Lahore after being seriously wounded in the barbarous lathi charge of 30th October. He is referred as the ""Lion of Punjab"" or ""Punjab Kesari"" and is remembered as freedom fighter, nationalist, educationist, lawyer, thinker, writer, social reformer, orator and a passionate fighter for the revival of the ancient Indian culture and |
| 9/2/1970 | President V. V. Giri inaugurated, Vivekanand Rock Memorial' at Kanyakumari. |
| 10/13/1989 | Panchayati Raj and Nagarpalika Bills defeated in Rajya Sabha. |
| 10/21/1954 | Government of India and France sign an agreement for the de-facto transfer of the French settlement of Pondicherry, Karaikal, Mahe to the Indian Union. The merger took place on November 1. |
| 5/20/1850 | Vishnushastri Chiplunkar, father of modern story writing in Marathi, was born. |
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