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Historical Event on 8/3/1939

Apoorva Kumar Sengupta, cricketer (1959 Test - India vs WI, without distinction), was born in Lucknow.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/16/1878Vallathol Narayana Menon, great freedom fighter, poet and writer, was born at Chennara village in Kerala.
9/19/1960Sindhu River water-sharing settement was signed between India and Pakistan.
3/10/1926Dilbagh Singh, Air Chief Marshal, the second Sikh Chief of Air Staff and Indian Air Force, was born in Punjab.
11/22/1988Baba Amte wins U.N. Human Rights Award.
7/1/1862Calcutta High Court was established for West Bengal and Andaman & Nicobar Islands. This Court has a Circuit Bench at Port Blair.
11/19/19829th Asian Games started in Delhi.
2/12/1998Om Prakash, 78, Hindi film comedian, passed away in Mumbai.
4/5/1949Indian Boy Scout and Girl Guide were established and renamed as Bharat Scouts and Guides.
8/28/1997Tiwari and Surinderjit Kaur set national records in hammer throw in Federation Cup Athletics.
10/26/1943Cholera epidemic killed 2,155 people in the third week of October at Calcutta.