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3rd OCTOBER TODAY IN HISTORY - DINVISHESH GHADAMODI

Today in Indian History
Events for October 3

3-October-1831	Britishers captured Mysore.
3-October-1880	Sakuntal Sangeet held in Anandodbhav Auditorium in Pune. Annasaheb Kirloskar presented the first musical play in Marathi.
3-October-1890	Laxminarayan Sahu, litterateur, journalist and social reformer, was born.
3-October-1903	Swami Ramanand Tirth, politician and educationist, was born.
3-October-1906	Govind Vinayak Devansthali, Sanskrit researcher, dictionary creator, professor and journalist, was born in Bombay.
3-October-1907	Mansukhlal Maganlal Zaveri, famous Gujrati poet and critic, was born.
3-October-1913	Sudangsu Abinash Banerjee, 'Montu', cricketer, (5 wickets, 1 test vs West Indies) was born in Calcutta.
3-October-1950	India protests U.N. troops' crossing of 38th parallel in New York.
3-October-1957	Republican Party of India established.
3-October-1977	Indira Gandhi arrested on charges of official corruption in New Delhi.
3-October-1978	Dr. Subhas Mukhopadhyay claimed the credit of India's first and the birth of world's second test-tube baby Durga Agrawal, who was born in Belle Vue Nursing Home in Calcutta.
3-October-1984	India's longest distance train Himsagar Express (from Jammu Tavi to Kanya Kumari) was first flagged.
3-October-1985	Morocco breaks diplomatic relations with India after New Delhi announced its recognition of the Saharwi Arab Democratic Republic.
3-October-1988	Lebanese kidnappers release Mithileshwar Singh after 30 months of being held captive.
3-October-1991	Ganpatrao Tapase, former Governor of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, died.
3-October-1992	Geet Sethi beats holder Mike Russel of Britain (2529-718) to become the first Indian to win the World Professional Billiards championship in Bombay.
3-October-1994	Bhushan Tiwari, famous Hindi film actor of yesteryears, died.
3-October-1996	National Conference swept back to power in J & K with a landslide victory.
3-October-1996	Second phase of UP polling.
3-October-1997	Devi Lal floats a new party 'Haryana Lok Dal'.
3-October-1997	Financial and operational autonomy to be given to 97 profit-making public sector enterprises ('mini-ratnas') other than the navaratnas.
3-October-1999	Insp N Gojen Singh won a 'silver' medal in 10,000 m. race and 6th position in 5,000 m. race in the 8th Asian Junior Athletic Championship ( International Level) held at Singapore.
3-October-1999	India finished with seven silver and four bronze medals in the Asian Junior Athletic Championship in Singapore.
3-October-2000	India and Russia sign a declaration on strategic partnership.
3-October-2000	Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee buys peace with the Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee by agreeing to a partial rollback of the hike in prices of petroleum products.