On this day in history

The significant events of daily life become history in time. Those events take place there, which are good, which are first, which are the curse-blessing of mankind.

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Today, Saturday 3 August 2024, take a look at the important events that happened on this day in history, the birth and death dates of prominent people and some other important things.

Chronology:
1108 - King Louis VI of France ascends the throne.
1492 - Christopher Columbus, the famous Italian navigator, began his voyage.
1492 - Jews are expelled from Spain.
1795 - Treaty of Greenville signed.
1858 - Discovery of the source of the Nile by John Smike.
1882 - Suez Canal captured by British naval forces.
1914 - Türkiye signs military treaty with Germany.
1914 - The first ships pass through the Panama Canal and the canal opens.
1914 - Britain declares war on Germany.
1914 - Germany declares war on France in World War I.
1940 - Italian forces invade British Somaliland during World War II.
1941 - Germany annexes a part of Russia.
1954 - Department of Atomic Energy formed in India.
1956 - Then the first Bengali film Mukh O Muksha made in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) was released.
1960 - Niger, one of the African countries, gained full independence and became a member of the United Nations.
1994 - The first heart transplant was performed at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi, India.
1999 - Independent East Timor emerges with a pro-independence election in East Timor.

Birth :
1856 - Alfred Deakin, the second Prime Minister of Australia.
1886 - Maithilisaran Gupta is a famous modern Hindi poet.
1905 – Dolores del Rio, Mexican actress.
1916 - Shakil Badayuni, Indian Urdu poet, writer and lyricist.
1930 - Nirmal Sen, famous journalist, politician of Bangladesh.
1939 - Utpalkumar Bose, a famous poet of the Hungry movement in Bengali literature.
1948 – Jean-Pierre Raffarin, former Prime Minister of France.
1951 - Atiur Rahman, famous Bangladeshi economist.
1984 - Sunil Chhetri, captain of the Indian football team.

Death:
1272 - Ghiyas Uddin Abdul Karim Ibn Ahmad, a prominent thinker and religious figure of the seventh Hijri.
1460 - King James II of Scotland.
1721 – English sculptor and wood engraver Ginling Gibbons.
1846 - Sheikh Md Hasan Najafi, known as the keeper of Jawaher or Gem, a renowned scholar.
1928 – Syed Amir Ali, Indian Muslim jurist and first Muslim judge of Calcutta High Court.
1954 - Famous French writer Sidon Gabriel Colt is born.
1957 – Devdas Gandhi, youngest son of Mahatma Gandhi and renowned journalist.
1975 – Amar Bose, Bengali anti-British revolutionary.
1978 - Journalist and writer Mohammad Waliullah.
2009 – Subhash Chakraborty, Minister of Sports and Transport in the Left Front government of West Bengal, and was the General Secretary of the Students' Federation of India