3rd January – What Happened Today In History? | On This Day

Today In History? 

Find out what happened on 3rd January in History. There are a lot many happenings which had taken place on this date in the pages of Indian History, here we have listed some of the very important events occurred 3rd January

Sanjay Khan   is an Indian actor, director and producer. Abbas Khan made his debut in the 1964 Chetan Anand film “Haqeeqat” followed by the Rajshri film Dosti. In the 1960s and 1970s Khan starred in the movies Dus Lakh, Ek Phool Do Mali and Intaqam
Gul Panag  is an Indian actress, voice actress, model, and former beauty queen who competed in the Miss Universe pageant. Her notable films include Dor, Dhoop, Manorama Six Feet Under, Hello, and Straight. Gul started her education in Sangrur, in Punjab
Veerapandiya Kattabomman  ; also known as Kattabomman was an 18th century Palayakarrar (‘Polygar’) chieftain from Panchalankurichi of Tamil Nadu, India. His ancestors migrated to Tamil Nadu from areas in present day Andhra Pradesh during the Vijayanagar period.
Naresh Iyer  is a playback singer from Chennai, India. Naresh Iyer has rendered film songs in several Indian languages and has several chart hits to his credit. His rendition of “Roobaroo” from the movie Rang De Basanti composed by
Navaneet Kaur  is an Indian film actress who mainly acts in Telugu films. Kaur was born and brought up in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Her parents are of Punjabi origin; her father was an army official

• Death anniversaries on 3rd January:

  Satish Dhawan  was a pioneering aerospace engineer, and an extremely influential rocket scientist, widely regarded as father of experimental fluid dynamics research in India. Born in Srinagar, India
  Suchitra Mitra  was an Indian singer and composer, exponent of Rabindra Sangeet or the songs of Bengal’s poet laureate Rabindranath Tagore, professor, and sheriff of Kolkata, India. As an academic
  Jyotindra Nath Dixit   commonly referred as J. N. Dixit, was an Indian diplomat and former Indian Foreign Secretary (1991–1994), the top bureaucratic job in the Ministry of External Affairs. At the time of his death he was the National Security
  M.S. Gopalakrishnan, aka MSG, (b.10 June 1931, Mylapore, Chennai, India,) is a violinist in the field of Carnatic music. He has been a recipient of the Padma Bhushan, Padma Sri, Kalaimamani, Sangeetha Kalanidhi and 1997 Sangeet Natak Akademi awards,
  Jatindra Charan Goho , popularly known by his ring name Gobar Goho (Bengali: গোবর গুহ), was a world famous Indian wrestler and practitioner of Pehlwani. He was the first Asian to win the World Light Heavyweight Championship in the United States in 1921

• Notable Events:

  1831 Savitribai Phule, famous social worker, was born at Naigaon in Satara district, Maharashtra.
  1836  Munshi Newal Kishore, son of Jamuna Prasad Bhargava–a zamindar of Aligarh– and a great erudite scholar, educationist, nationalist, social worker and a pioneer industrialist, was born. He was the founder of Navalkishore Press, Lucknow (1858), which published 2612 books that elaborated Hindi literature. He was the Publisher of Awadhi Newspaper in Asia.
  1871  Father Kuriakose Elias Chavara, freedom fighter and social reformer, died
  1880 Publication of ‘Illustrated Weekly of India’ started

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