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Historical Event on 8/3/1996
Leander Paes wins a bronze (tennis) at Atlanta, bringing India an Olympic medal after a gap of 16 years.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/1/1992 | Anant Gundopant Tendulkar, great journalist, passed away. |
| 7/23/1991 | Premdatt Paliwal, president of All India Forward Block, died. |
| 6/10/1984 | Top army commander killed in Bihar; Sikh troops desert unit. |
| 7/27/1972 | Charu Majumdar, father of Naxalite Movement and the founder President of C.O.I.(M-L), died in prison. |
| 5/21/1990 | Moelvi Muhammad Farouk, great Indian spiritual leader, was murdered. |
| 12/30/1906 | The All India Muslim League was founded in Dacca by a group of big landlords which included Aga Khan III, The Nawab of Dacca and Nawab Mohsin-ul-Mulk-Salimullah. They supported the Partition of Bengal and called for seperate Muslim electrorates and other safeguard for Muslims. |
| 11/24/1988 | Mizoram became the first Lok Sabha member. |
| 12/14/1946 | Sanjay Gandhi, youth Congress leader, was born in New Delhi. |
| 11/30/1909 | Ramesh Chandra died. |
| 8/18/1979 | Vasantrao Naik, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, died. |
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