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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.
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| 9/11/1967 | China and India exchange artillery fire on Sikkim-Tibet border. |
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