Today. gk in Indian History 3-March

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● Today in Indian History

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 small pox at Raigarh or Sinhagarh fort. (2 or 3).

3-March-1707
Shehejade Muajjam declared himself asthe 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 theTata 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 thetemple of 'Kala Rama' at Nasik.

3-March-1931
Gandhi and Viceroy Irwin sign Delhi Pact giving Indians right to make salt ifcivil 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 intervent

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, d

3-March-1983
Seventh Non-Aligned Summit started at New Delhi.

3-March-1989
Gwal Pahari in Haryana switched on thesolar energy centre of the first pilot 50kilowatt 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. GovernorV.C. Pande's decision evokes widespreadcriticism.
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