Today Importance - 3rd October

Today Importance - 3rd October

3-Oct-1831

British occupied Mysore.

3-Oct-1880

Shakuntal Sangeet held at Anandov Auditorium, Pune. Annasaheb Kirloskar presented the first musical drama in Marathi language.

3-Oct-1890

Literary, journalist and social reformer Lakshmi Narayan Sahu was born.

3-Oct-1903

Birth of politician and educationist Swami Ramananda Tirtha.

3-Oct-1906

Govinda Vinayak Devanasthali, Sanskrit researcher, lexicographer, professor and journalist, was born in Bombay.

3-Oct-1907

Famous Gujarati poet and critic Mansukhlal Maganlal Zaveri was born.

3-Oct-1913

Sudangsu Avinash Banerjee, 'Montu', cricketer, (5 wickets, 1 Test vs West Indies), born in Kolkata.

3-Oct-1950

India opposes UN troops crossing 38th parallel in New York

3-October-1957

Establishment of Republican Party of India.

3-October-1977

Indira Gandhi was arrested in New Delhi on charges of government corruption.

3-October-1978

Dr. Subhash Mukhopadhyay takes credit for the birth of India's first and the world's second test-tube baby, Durga Aggarwal, who was born at Bell View Nursing Home in Kolkata.

3-October-1984

India's longest distance train Himsagar Express (Jammu Tabi to Kanya Kumari) was flagged off for the first time.

3-October-1985

Morocco severed diplomatic ties with India after New Delhi announced its recognition of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.

3-Oct-1988

Mithileshwar Singh was released by Lebanese kidnappers after 30 months of hostage-taking.

3-Oct-1991

Former Governors of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh Ganapat also died of tapas.

3-Oct-1992

Geeta Shetty defeated Britain's Mike Russell (2529-718) to become the first Indian to win the World Professional Billiards Championship in Bombay.

3-Oct-1994

Last year's famous Hindi film actor Bhushan Tiwari passed away.

3-Oct-1996

The National Conference returned to power with a landslide victory in Jammu and Kashmir.

3-Oct-1996

Second phase of polling in UP.

3-Oct-1997

Devisal formed a new party 'Haryana Lok Dal'.

3-Oct-1997

Apart from Navaratna, 97 for-profit public sector enterprises ('mini-Ratnas') will be given financial and operational autonomy.

3-Oct-1999

Inspector N Gojen Singh won 'Silver' medal in 10,000m. Sixth place in running and 5000 meters. Race at the 8th Asian Junior Athletic Championships (International Level) held in Singapore.

3-Oct-1999

India finished with seven silver and four bronze medals at the Asian Junior Athletics Championships in Singapore.

3-Oct-2000

India and Russia signed a declaration of strategic partnership.

3-Oct-2000

Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee made peace with Trinomial Congress chief Mamata Banerjee by agreeing to partially withdraw the hike in petroleum products.