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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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