Historical Events on March 3.

1.  World Hearing Day & World Wildlife Day

2.  1575, 3rd March: Mughal emperor Akbar defeated the Bengal army in the battle of Tukaroi.

3.  1845, 3rd March: Florida became the 27th state of the United States.

4.  1865, 3rd March: Establishment of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC)

5.  1923, 3rd March: Publication of the first issue of Time Magazine.

6.  1938, 3rd March: Discovery of crude oil in Saudi Arabia.

7.  1939, 3rd March: Mahatma Gandhi went on a hunger strike in Mumbai against the dictatorial rule of the British government.

8.  1943, 3rd March: World War II, 143 killed in a stampede at an anti-bomb shelter in London.

9.  1973, 3rd March: Presidential Rule in the Indian state of Odisha.

10.  1986, 3rd March: Australia became fully independent of the United Kingdom under the 1986 Australia Act.

11.  1994, 3rd March: A Grammy Award awarded to Pandit Vishwamohan Bhat, a guitarist from Jaipur.

12.  2005, 3rd March: Steve Fawcett completed his orbit in 67 hours on a Global Fire aircraft alone and without refueling.

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on March 3.

1.  1839: Jamsetji Tata, an Indian Industrialist and founder of Tata Group.

2.  1845: Georg Cantor, a German mathematician.

3.  1847: Alexander Graham Bell, a Scottish-born inventor, scientist, engineer, and inventor of the practical telephone.

4.  1926: Ravi Shankar Sharma, an Indian music director.

5.  1931: Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan, an Indian classical musician.

6.  1967: Shankar Mahadevan, an Indian singer, and composer.

7.  1970: Inzamam-ul-Haq, is a Pakistani cricket coach and former Pakistani cricketer. 

8.  1987: Shraddha Kapoor, an Indian actress, and singer.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on March 3.

1.  1644: Guru Hargobind, the sixth of ten Gurus of the Sikh religion.

2.  1707: Aurangzeb, the sixth Mughal emperor.

3.  1919: Hari Narayan Apte, a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India. 

4.  1924: Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States.

5.  1982: Firaq Gorakhpuri, an Urdu poet from India.

6.  1995: Nikhil Jyoti Ghosh, an Indian musician.

3-March-78

Shaliwahan Shaka Hindu Calender started.

3-March-1575

A battle was fought at Turkra or Turkra Qasba (in the Balasore district) in which the Afghans were routed.

3-March-1700

Chhatrapati Rajaram Maharaj died of lung infection due to smallpox at Sinhagad fort.

3-March-1707

Shehejade Muajjam declared himself as the successor of Aurangzeb and renamed himself Bahadurshah First.

3-March-1839

Jamshedji Nasarvanji Tata, famous industrialist and father of modern technology, was born at Navsari near Surat, Gujarat. He started cotton mills in Bombay and Nagpur and founded the Tata Iron and Steel Company, which is one of the largest integrated steel mills in the world.

3-March-1847

Alexander Graham Bell, great pioneer, inventor and professor, was born at Edinburgh, Scotland.

3-March-1859

A length of 119 miles of line was laid in the North from Allahabad to Kanpur.

3-March-1871

Congress changes Indian tribes status from independent to dependent.

3-March-1885

Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of fed govt).

3-March-1891

Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Dept) created.

3-March-1906

Krishnarao Shiva Shelvankar, journalist and diplomat, was born.

3-March-1906

Trailokyanath Goswami, famous Hindi writer and educationist, was born at Nalbari, Assam .

3-March-1919

Hari Narayan Apte, famous Marathi novelist, passed away.

3-March-1921

Ahmed Gulsher, freedom fighter and politician, was born at Satna (M.P).

3-March-1924

Mustafa Kamal Attaturk abolished the caliphate and established a nationalist government and thus Khilafat Movement ended without achieving its aim.

3-March-1930

Untouchable people fought to enter the temple of 'Kala Rama' at Nasik.

3-March-1931

Gandhi and Viceroy Irwin sign Delhi Pact giving Indians right to make salt if civil disobedience stops.

3-March-1934

Amarsingh Pandurang Rane, educationist, was born at Banage, Kolhapur.

3-March-1939

Gandhiji commences "fast unto death" at Rajkot to protest state's autocratic rule at Bombay and to secure ruler's adherence of promise given towards reform administration, and ends it on March 7 on Viceroy's intervention.

3-March-1939

Motganhalli Laxmanarsu Jaisi alais Jaisimha, cricketer (Indian batsman of the sixties), was born in Secundrabad.

3-March-1943

Gandhi breaks his hunger strike after 21 days.

3-March-1948

B. S. Munje, founder of Bhosla Military School, passed away.

3-March-1952

The Indian National Congress secured absolute majority in the Lok Sabha in the General elections.

3-March-1967

India signed the International Space Treaty in Moscow.

3-March-1978

Origin of Saka Era (India).

3-March-1982

Firaq Gorakhpuri "Raghupati Sahay", great writer, nationalist and who revolutionised Urdu poetry, died.

3-March-1983

Seventh Non-Aligned Summit started at New Delhi.

3-March-1989

Gwal Pahari in Haryana switched on the solar energy centre of the first pilot 50 kilowatt solar power plant.

3-March-1990

JD-BJP coalition government in Gujarat, Chimanbhai Patel to become CM; Sharad Pawar in Maharashtra and Bhairon Singh Shekhewat of BJP to head the BJP-JD coalition government in Rajasthan.

3-March-1993

Sharad Pawar nominated CM of Maharashtra.

3-March-1996

Haryana govt. bans liquor vends and bars in rural areas.

3-March-1997

Indian Socialist Party headed by Arangil Sridharan merges with Lok Sakthi. It was floated by Ramakrishna Hedge.

3-March-1997

Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman, arrives in New Delhi.

3-March-1997

Senior Officials Meeting of Indian Ocean Rim (IOR) countries begins in Mauritius.

3-March-1999

Four members of the forward Bhumihar community and alleged members of the Ranbir Sena are gunned down by an armed squad of the People's War Group in Bhimpura village of Jehanbad district in Bihar.

3-March-2000

Nitish Kumar, Samata Party leader, sworn in Bihar Chief Minister. Governor V.C. Pande's decision evokes widespread criticism.