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Historical Event on 8/3/1930

Vyanktesh Bapuji Ketkar, famous astrologist and researcher, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/7/1888Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist, was born in Tiruchirapalli, South India. His work was influential in the growth of science in India. He was the recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics for the 1928 discovery now called 'Raman scattering'--a change in frequency observed when light is scattered in a transparent material. When monochromatic or laser light is passed through a transparent gas, liquid, or solid and is observed with the spectroscope, the normal spectral line has associated with it lines of longer and of shorter wavelength called the Raman spectrum. Thus the Raman effect is applied in spectrographic chemical analysis and in the determination of molecular structure.
12/6/1997Nine persons killed and over 60 injured in bomb blasts in three trains which left Chennai. Blasts occurred in Tiruchi, Erode (Tamil Nadu) and Trissur in Kerala.
2/23/1843Narendranath Sen, famous journalist, was born.
3/18/1944Subhash Chandra Bose formed Azad Hind Fauz and took control of Kohima-Imphal.
8/21/2000Mahatma Gandhi's daughter-in-law Mrs. Nirmala Gandhi dies in Wardha. She was 91.
2/17/1976New Zealand score their first innings win in Tests vs India.
12/10/1996Supreme Court bans employment of child labour in hazardous industries.
8/15/1990Uttar Maharashtra University was established.
9/27/1989Hemanta Kumar Mukherjee, noted playback singer and music director, died.
10/2/1950Persis Khambatta, famous actress (Star Trek, Megaforce), was born in Bombay.