On This Day
3 August
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1886 Hindi poet Maithili Sharan Gupt was born in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh.
- 1985 Baba Amte was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for public service.
- 1993 Swami Chinmayananda, the famous spiritual thinker of India and world-renowned scholar of Vedanta philosophy, passed away.
- 1994 Dr P Venugopal along with 20 surgeons successfully performed India's first heart transplant at the AIIMS, New Delhi.
- 2024 Yamini Krishnamurthy, Indian classical dancer recognized for her contributions to Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi, died.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1492 Hoping to find a westward route to India, Christopher Columbus set sail on his first transatlantic voyage, departing from Palos, Spain, with three small ships—the Niña, Pinta, and Santa María.
- 1911 Airplanes are used for the first time in a military capacity when Italian planes reconnoiter Turkish lines near Tripoli.
- 1914 Germany declared war on France in World War I.
- 1924 English novelist and short-story author Joseph Conrad, who was admired for the richness of his prose and his renderings of dangerous life at sea and in exotic places, died in Canterbury, Kent.
- 1936 American sprinter Jesse Owens wins the 100m (10.3 seconds) in front of Adolf Hitler in a famous race at the Berlin Olympics, first of 4 gold medals at the Games.
- 1958 The nuclear-powered submarmine Nautilus became the first vessel to cross the North Pole underwater.
- 1960 The Republic of Niger gained its independence from France.
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