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3 July
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1661 Portugal gifted Bombay to the British King Charles II.
- 1941 Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Indian film director and cinematographer (Kathapurushan, Mathulikal), was born in Mannadi, Travancore, British India.
- 2001 India's first private FM station – Radio City, Bangalore – came on air, ending an era of state broadcasting that began in 1930. In the past decade, FM radio has enjoyed spectacular success: over 200 stations are now in operation, and the FM industry has seen spectacular growth in listenership and revenues.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1883 Franz Kafka, German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature, was born in Prague, capital city of the Czech Republic. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic.
- 1903 The first cable across the Pacific Ocean is spliced between Honolulu, Midway, Guam and Manila.
- 1962 Algeria became independent after 132 years of French rule.
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