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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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