03 October Special day in India

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03 October special day in India

Today’s Historical Events on October 3

1670, 3rd October: Shivaji Maharaj plundered Surat for the second time

1735, 3rd October: France and the sixth Kerala Emperor signed a peace deal

1778, 3rd October: British sailor Captain James Cook arrived in Alaska

1863, 3rd October: Abraham Lincoln, the then President of the United States, announced ‘Thanksgiving Day’ in America

1906, 3rd October: SOS was established as the national distress call, replacing the call sign CDQ

1932, 3rd October: Iraq gained independence from the United Kingdom

1935, 3rd October: Italy invaded Ethiopia under the leadership of General de Bono

1952, 3rd October: The United Kingdom successfully tested nuclear weapons to become the world’s third nuclear power

1959, 3rd October: Postcodes were introduced in Britain

1990, 3rd October: East Germany and West Germany merged

1994, 3rd October: India submitted its formal claim for permanent membership of the Security Council

1996, 3rd October: Pakistani batsman Shahid Afridi created history by scoring a century in 37 balls in a one-day international

2003, 3rd October: Pakistan tested Helf-III missile

03 October in Indian History – Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on October 3

1903: Swami Ramananda Tirtha, an Indian leader of the freedom movement in the state of Hyderabad, a social reformer and educationist

1919: James Buchanan, Nobel Prize-winning American economist

1938: Ray Edward Cochran, an American rock and roll musician

1947: Fred Deluca, Italian-American businessman, co-founder of Subway Restaurant

1949: J P Dutta, Indian film director

1953: Dipak Misra, 45th Chief Justice of India

1953: Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer, an Indian lawyer and member of the Constituent Assembly of India

1954: Sathyaraj, Indian film actor, director, and producer He predominantly works in Telugu language films

1969: Gwen Stefani, American singer, and songwriter

03 October in Indian History – Death Anniversaries of famous people on October 3

1867: Elias Howe, American inventor of the sewing machine

1891: Édouard Lucas, French mathematician

1995: Mylai Ponnuswamy Sivagnanam, popularly known as MaPoSi, was an Indian politician, freedom fighter, and the founder of the political party Tamil Arasu Kazhagam

1999: Akio Morita, a Japanese businessman, and co-founder of Sony along with Masaru Ibuka

2007: M N Vijayan, popularly known as Vijayan Mash was an Indian academic, orator, columnist, and writer of Malayalam literature

2012: Kidar Nath Sahani, a governor of the Indian states of Sikkim and Goa

2012: Abdul Haq Ansari, Indian theologian, and scholar

2018: Leon Max Lederman, an American experimental physicist