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Historical Event on 8/3/1985
Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service goes to Baba Amte.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/22/1998 | Second Lieutenant Punit Datta is posthumously selected for the nation's highest peace time gallantry award, Ashok Chakra. |
| 3/1/1908 | A.E.T. Barrow, educationist, was born. |
| 9/28/1965 | India-Pakistan hostility erupts into a war lead by Pakistan. |
| 2/28/1987 | The National Science Day was celebrated for the first time at the ICMR Headquarters and all its Institutes/Centres in February 1987 through exhibitions, lectures, demonstration campaigns etc. (This has now become an annual event). |
| 1/1/1900 | Sathya Sai Baba was born |
| 3/15/1931 | M.I.Mohammad Ghose, cricket test umpire for 8 tests from 1976-80, was born in Tamil Nadu. |
| 1/1/1892 | Mahadev Haribhai Desai, follower of Gandhiji, was born in Surat district. |
| 11/5/1907 | Special commissioner appointed to deal with famine conditions. |
| 12/23/1845 | Rasbhihari Ghosh, famous patriot and law expert, was born. |
| 12/20/1993 | Jaichandran Nair, Colonel Neelkantan, died. |
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