Historical Events on January 3.

1.  1496, 3rd Jan: Leonardo da Vinci’s flight experiment failed.

2.  1925, 3rd Jan: Benito Mussolini became a dictator of Italy.

3.  1929, 3rd Jan: Mahatma Gandhi met Lord Irwin.

4.  1943, 3rd Jan: Information about missing people broadcasted for the first time on television.

5.  1947, 3rd Jan: The first televised telecast of the proceedings of the US Parliament took place.

6.  1952, 3rd Jan: First national elections in independent India.

7.  1957, 3rd Jan: Hamilton Electric launched the world’s first battery-powered wristwatch.

8.  1968, 3rd Jan: Launch of the country’s first meteorological rocket Maneka.

9.  1993, 3rd Jan: USA and Russia agreed to halve their nuclear weapons numbers.

10.  2020, 3rd Jan: An American airstrike near Baghdad International Airport killed the Iranian General Qasem Soleimani.

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on January 3.

1.  1730: Rani Velu Nachiyar, a queen of Sivaganga estate. She was the first queen to fight against the British colonial power in India.

2.  1760: Veerapandiya Kattabomman, an 18th-century Telugu Palayakarrar and chieftain in Tamil Nadu.

3.  1831: Savitribai Phule, an Indian social reformer, educationalist, and poet from Maharashtra.

4.  1883: Clement Attlee, a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

5.  1892: J. R. R. Tolkien, an English writer, poet, philologist, and academic.

6.  1921: Chetan Anand, a Hindi film producer, screenwriter, and director from India.

7.  1938: Jaswant Singh, a retired officer of the Indian Army and a former cabinet minister. 

8.  1986: Navneet Kaur Rana, an Indian film actress who mainly acts in Telugu films.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on January 3.

1.  1322: Philip V, the King of France and Navarre. 

2.  1867: Elias Howe Jr., an American inventor best known for his creation of the modern lockstitch sewing machine.

3.  1903: Alois Hitler Sr., an Austrian civil servant and the father of Adolf Hitler.

4.  1972: Mohan Rakesh, an Indian writer of Hindi literature.

5.  1975: Lalit Narayan Mishra, a former Minister of Railways in the government of India.

6.  2000: Sushila Nayyar, an Indian physician, veteran Gandhian, and politician.

7.  2002: Satish Dhawan, an Indian mathematician, and aerospace engineer, widely regarded as the father of experimental fluid dynamics research in India.

8.  2017: H. S. Mahadeva Prasad, an Indian politician from the state of Karnataka.

3-January-1831

Savitribai Phule, famous social worker, was born at Naigaon in Satara district, Maharashtra.

3-January-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.

3-January-1871

Father Kuriakose Elias Chavara, freedom fighter and social reformer, died.

3-January-1880

Publication of 'Illustrated Weekly of India' started.

3-January-1912

Shantiprasad Jain, famous industrialist, was born.

3-January-1917

Kartarsingh Duggal, famous Punjabi story-writer and novelist, was born.

3-January-1919

Shambhu Pan, cricket Test Umpire for 9 tests from 1960-70, was born at Bengal.

3-January-1921

First Indian Parliament meets.

3-January-1922

Kirat Chothairam Babani, versatile Sindhi Writer and Journalist, was born.

3-January-1923

Madhukar Arnalkar, famous Marathi writer, was born.

3-January-1931

Yashwant Dinkar Phadke, great critic of literature, was born.

3-January-1938

Jaswant Singh, son of Thakur Sardar Singh, was born in Jasol, Distt. Barmer (Rajasthan).

3-January-1945

No. 8 Squadron becomes the first to convert onto the Spitfire VIII during the previous month and commencing operations on 3 January 1945 in the Kangaw area.

3-January-1946

Three High Ranked Officers of Azad Hind Fauj were released by Gen. C. Auchinleck.

3-January-1947

Gandhiji toured the riot-affected areas in Bihar from January 3 to January 29.

3-January-1952

India adopted birth control program with aid of U.N. World Health Organization.

3-January-1966

Chetan Jagatram Manohar Sharma, cricketer (Indian Test pace bowler, World Cup hat-trick 1987), was born in Ludhiana.

3-January-1975

Lalit Narayan Mishra, great freedom fighter, politician, leader, member of the Lok Sabha and Minister of Railways, died at a Railway Hospital in Danapur due to a bomb blast at Samastipur Railway Station a day earlier.

3-January-1978

Chandrasekar takes 6-52 at MCG in Indian innings win.

3-January-1985

Azharuddin scores 110 in first Test innings.

3-January-1987

Arvind Deshpande, famous actor, died.

3-January-1987

Dr. Harekrishna Mehtab, former Chief Minister of Orrisa and Governer of Mumbai State, died.

3-January-1994

Stalemate persists on the Kashmir issue during Indo-Pak talks that concluded in Islamabad.

3-January-1995

PM inaugurates 82nd Indian Science Congress at Jadavpur University, Calcutta.

3-January-1996

Bomb blast kills six and seriously wounds 20. Jammu and Kashmir Islamic Front claim responsibility in Delhi.

3-January-1996

Karnataka agrees to release 6 tmc ft. of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu, bowing to PM's order.

3-January-1997

Congress President Sitaram Kesri elected leader of Congress Parliamentary Party, and Sharad Pawar appointed leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha.

3-January-1997

Jayalalitha, former Tamil Nadu CM, inprisoned for 27 days, released on bail.

3-January-1997

Government announces setting up of a Central Board for bank frauds.

3-January-1997

Olympian Jaspal Rana sets new national mark in junior men's sports pistol 25 metres in National Shooting in Asansol.

3-January-2000

A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, accuses Pakistan for the hijack of an Indian Airlines aircraft. (The crisis ended on Dec. 31 last with the Vajpayee Government agreeing to free three terrorists in exchange for the passengers).