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.
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